Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lawmakers faced a politically unpleasant task: fashioning an energy bill designed to reduce the nation's dangerous dependence on imported oil?a piece of legislation likely to take money out of just about everybody's pocket. Their situation was aptly described by Indiana's John Brademas, the House Democratic whip: "It is tough enough with separation of powers and the absence of disciplined parties to enact legislation when there is some national consensus. It is really difficult when half the people don't even believe there is a problem...
...plays an adventurous American woman who follows a desert caravan and wins the grudging respect of a nomad chieftain (Anthony Quinn). Caravan is being filmed in Iran, and Jennifer sometimes longs for the comforts of home. "It's terribly hot," she says. "Your eyes get red, the winds whip sand all over you-and there is no dry cleaner near...
Pardon Mon Affaire is one of those sex farces that the French seem to be able to whip up like croissants - airy, pleasant and a little flaky. Because it is something of a standard product, it is also rather predictable. When a married bureaucrat (Jean Rochefort) conceives a passion for a flashy Paris model (Anny Duperey), we have no doubt that he is going to bed her in the final reel - after first undergoing a series of ritual humiliations befitting a middle-aged fool who tries to play the swinger...
Bumper Stickers. To whip up enthusiasm for the bills, supporters have packed committee hearings and state house galleries with vocal supporters, many of whom are elderly. In Wichita, Kans., Virginia Wilson held a Laetrile taste-in at her home, featuring fresh fruits, lima beans, beets and carrots, which proponents claim are rich in the substance. She also showed a 45-minute pro-Laetrile film called World Without Cancer. At the Illinois state house, some 300 Laetrile backers passed out blue-and-white bumper stickers that read: LAETRILE WORKS! YOU BET YOUR LIFE. In Massachusetts, supporters delivered to the legislature...
...gently on the lead, relaxed and running smoothly. From then on, he coasted, flicking away in turn brief challenges from Spirit Level, Run Dusty Run and Sanhedrin. It was a hand-ride all the way for the big dark bay. Jockey Jean Cruguet tapped him twice with an uncocked whip in the stretch, looked for contenders over first one shoulder, then the other and, 20 yards from the finish, stood up in the saddle. He went past the wire with his whip held triumphantly aloft...