Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nancy Foreman, George's mother, supported the family and was a harsh disciplinarian to her seven children. "I didn't spare the rod," she says. "I whipped good. I'd get off at 10 o'clock and sometimes I'd whip the rest of the night. Sometimes I took that long to straighten...
...year West Germany could start running its own balance of trade deficit. This would create serious political problems for Chancellor Schmidt and his Social Democratic Party. Schmidt is also bedeviled by two nagging scandals: 1) the suspension last week of Karl Wienand from his powerful post as S.P.D. whip because of charges of tax evasion and lying to an investigative committee, and 2) the fact that Confessed East German Spy Günter Guillaume could rise to become one of then Chancellor Willy Brandt's three personal assistants before he was caught last April (TIME...
George Ford, Harvard's new soccer coach, has been spending the first part of his reign trying to whip his players into shape while teaching them fundamental ball control skills. Ford held training camp at the St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., last week where 34 players went through the rigors of three days with two daily practices and two more days of three grueling daily practices...
...were careful to sound out the views of the Cabinet and a wide circle of Ford's advisers and confidants, including Melvin Laird, the former Congressman and Secretary of Defense; Bryce Harlow, an aide to both Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Nixon; and Michigan's Robert Griffin, G.O.P. whip in the Senate...
When Senate Majority Whip Robert Byrd rose to accept the West Virginia Broadcasters Association Distinguished Achievement Award last week, guests at the staid Greenbrier resort expected the standard political speech. Instead, Byrd picked up a violin and to his own accompaniment let loose with a few choruses of Old Joe Clark. "He's no violinist, but he's a damn good fiddle player," judged Association President Bob Brown after Byrd's performance. Actually, Byrd began his music career as a boy back in Stotesbury, W. Va., and began using the violin on the campaign trail to draw...