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Word: whips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rude sexual awakening when a Turk captured and sodomized him at the height of the rebellion. From then on, Lawrence was lost to consuming guilt and shame and soon after the assault, Lawrence took up the habit, repeated regularly until his death, of paying a fellow soldier to whip him mercilessly as an act of stimulating penance...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: What the Desert Can do to a Man | 5/14/1976 | See Source »

WELL. Byrd is a good ole boy, came up the hard way and all that. The last time he ran for the Senate he got 90 per cent of all votes cast. He's the Senate Democratic whip. He's also a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, and he voted against every civil rights measure in the '60s, including the extension of the Voting Rights Act in 1970. Senator Byrd is liberalizing himself lately, probably because he wants to be majority leader...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Voting Behavior | 5/11/1976 | See Source »

...tell now what the people will do in November," Rep. George Keverian '53 (D-Everett), the majority whip, said yesterday. Keverian said that no commercial enterprises are going to absorb the costs because all costs will be passed on to the consumer...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Legislature Rejects Flat Rate Electric Bill Proposal, 182-49 | 5/4/1976 | See Source »

...urgency of Whitlock's mission is clear. He must take over the task force leadership, now totally void, whip the more lethargic committees into place, and coordinate the recommendations of all seven groups...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Musical Chairs In UHall | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

...Waldo Von Erich, the all-German Champ, who parades around matches in Buffalo, his home-away-from-home, in full Nazi regalia, including hobnailed boots, Iron Cross medallion, World War II helmet, and leather whip. He has developed a hold which translates into English as "The Claw." When applied to the soft underbelly of the soft underbelly of an inexperienced grappler, von Erich's steel hard grip can gouge through ordinary flesh and grasp ever-so vital internal organs. Von Erich is equipped with a device which was developed late in the War--a sort of belt which wraps around...

Author: By Nick Eberstadt, | Title: Some Notes on Big-Time Wrestling | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

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