Word: whips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Birmingham whites and blacks share a community of fear . . . Every channel of communication, every medium of mutual interest, every reasoned approach, every inch of middle ground has been fragmented by the emotional dynamite of racism, reinforced by the whip, the razor, the gun, the bomb, the torch, the club, the knife, the mob . . . Telephones are tapped . . . Mail is intercepted and opened . . . The eavesdropper, the spy and the informer have become a fact of life...
...gate, Bally Ache bolted, as expected, to an early lead. Tompion challenged at the half, then went into one of his strange sulks and faded to fourth. As ordered, Hartack bided his time until he found the spot: in the far turn he put the whip to Venetian Way and blasted past Bally Ache to the lead. The stretch run was a piece of cake, but Hartack did not let up until Venetian Way, the outsider, had run off with the 86th Kentucky Derby by 3½ lengths...
...point, three girls stood on the wide barre casually doing deep knee bends while three male members of the company lying beneath them mirrored the action in reverse. Choreographer Graham's part in the whole thing consisted of sulking behind a screen, emerging occasionally to freeze the whip-flicking ballet master with gaunt looks...
...already a reformed fellow. And though he is calmly vague about the details of his coat of arms (asked what it is, he replies: "Why, it is a coat of arms for the Ycaza family"), many a follower of the new Ycaza might suggest that it be a whip rampant on a field of winning $2 tickets...
...military significance is great, may solve the major problem of missile shots from submarines: determining the exact distance and direction from the sub to the target. Cruising underwater far off the beaten track and out of loran's range, a nuclear submarine will be able to poke a whip antenna above the surface, take a fix on the nearest Transit satellite, and blaze away with lethal accuracy...