Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SEEMS THAT in their final days, empires begin to turn faster and faster, careening along and over everything. As the fuses blow and the fires of decadence burn brighter and brighter they whip apart, spewing people and culture everywhere. Then the barbarians--or the Richard Nixons--ride into town. Perhaps future historians will chart the beginning of the fall of the American Imperium as that frenzied year of Tet and Chicago, 1968. Or maybe they will see it as our coming of age--in the highlands and paddies of Indochina the distinctions of war blurred into My Lai Four...
...U.M.W. leadership spent $40,000 to whip up support for ratification of the second pact. Country Singer Johnny Paycheck, a favorite of the miners, was recruited to support the settlement in one-minute radio spots. Instead of belting out his top song, Take This Job and Shove It, he pushed the new contract by singing a few bars of Spread the Good News Around. Miller traveled through Appalachia, appealing to the locals and making a pitch on television. District presidents chorused their own praise of the pact over nine TV and 50 radio stations in all the regions where U.M.W...
...Italian parliament is due to elect a new President; among other strict policy guidelines, allegiance to NATO would have to be maintained, and there could be no policemen's union affiliated with the Communist-dominated General Confederation of Labor-the rejection of a key Communist demand. Insisted Senate Whip Giuseppe Bartolomei: "The Communists must not be legitimized as a governing party, not even...
...impressed. Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who heads the intelligence committee, pointed out that its report was based on "largely secondhand" evidence. Treaty proponents argued irrefutably that the drug-trafficking allegations were irrelevant to the question of whether the canal pact was desirable. Said California's Alan Cranston, the majority whip: "There was no smoking gun found in Torrijos' hand, and besides, he's not going to be around in the year 2000." Even Alabama Democrat James Allen, a leading opponent of the treaties, concluded that the drug debate had been pointless. Said he: "I don't think it changed...
...wife of a coal miner, was a strict disciplinarian. "I never remember her kissing me," Byrd recalls, "except once." Young Byrd had misbehaved?he no longer recalls the transgression?but resourcefully came up with a ploy. Says he: "I asked her to kiss me. She did, and didn't whip...