Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whip Inflation...
Ford's gimmicky WIN (Whip Inflation Now) voluntary program was a stillborn loser. A lot of WIN buttons were flashed around the White House, inspiring ribald imitations elsewhere, but in fact, from a President it was singularly inappropriate advice to stop spending just when sales were dropping in a stalled economy. Henry Ford II, for one, informed Ford of his error...
...opposition. He weighs the comparison by opposing a hygienic professional without strong sexual drives (whose chief pleasure is paging through coffee-table books about ancient Greece) to a barely literate whirlwind of adolescent lust. Strang worships his horse-god every night and knows that his worship is accepted; he whips himself with a horse's whip, sets a bridle in his mouth, kisses the hooves of his god and licks the sweat off his face...
...trying to win approval of a two-planet flight that would be launched in 1979 to send a single spacecraft past Jupiter and Uranus. He is also trying to whip up enthusiasm for a ship that would go into orbit around Jupiter, monitoring the planet up to three years...
...find our economy and Government depressing enough at the present time, and I became even more discouraged after reading in Essay that "White House Press Secretary Ronald Nessen was seen wearing his WIN (WHIP INFLATION NOW) button upside down, claiming that NIM spelled out NO IMMEDIATE MIRACLES...