Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intrude on his political decisions. For evidence one need only turnt to the callous bombing of mainland Cambodia after the belligerent Mayaguez rescue operation; to Ford's effort to impeach ex-Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas for writing an article in a pornographic magazine; and to his Whip Inflation Now program, which helped plunge the country into a severe recession and expanded mass unemployment...
After a slow start, Brown overcame a 7-6 deficit at halftime to whip Holy Cross, 28-18, in a see-saw battle punctuated by a surprisingly poor Bruin defensive performance...
...Smith married a strong-willed South African widow, Janet Watt, whose views on race coincided with his own (they have a son; she has two children from her first marriage). Smith, the ex-pilot, soon gravitated into another form of combat: Rhodesian politics. In 1961, when he was chief whip of the ruling United Federal Party, Smith resigned his seat in protest over a proposed constitution that accepted the British demand for greater black representation in government. Backed by an ultrarightist tobacco tycoon, Douglas ("Boss") Lilford, Smith helped found the Rhodesian Front Party, which won the national elections...
...growth of public opinion in China that may not be amenable to Mao's legacy. "Among a majority there's a great deal of consumerism. Among a minority there's idealism and an attempt to renew Chinese socialism. Consumeristic instincts go against the efforts of the radicals to whip up revolution." While he grants that the Chinese leadership could take either direction in the long run, like other Harvard China-watchers, he insists it would be useless to try to gauge policy shifts so early...
...whip and a banana...