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Word: whips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accommodation has to work both ways. Ken says, "I don't want them to pity me, and I don't want them to think 'Daddy's home again and he's going to crack the whip.' I never want them to think 'Why doesn't he go back to Viet Nam?' " When the girls once asked him whether he was tortured, he said "Yes," and the family left it at that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Life with Father | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

This was the last time the horse has ever been out of the money. In fact, he never finished behind another horse in all the rest of his nine starts in '72, although once his number was taken down for a foul when Jockey Turcotte used the whip on him for the first time and the startled Secretariat ducked into another horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wow Horse Races into History | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...Derby, the Secretariat-Turcotte brain trust decided to show its speed nearing the final turn. Toward the end of the turn and coming into the stretch, where it seemed that chirping might not be enough, Turcotte gave his collaborator a few whacks with the whip to indicate the seriousness of the situation. After that Secretariat took the lead and drew away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wow Horse Races into History | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

Turcotte never even bothered to cock his whip-which means transferring it from between the last two fingers and the palm to the working part of the hand. Who needed a whip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wow Horse Races into History | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

DANIEL K. INOUYE, 48, Democrat from Hawaii, is assistant majority whip. A combat veteran who lost his right arm in World War II, he is likely to be one of the most aggressive interrogators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Guide: Who's Investigating What | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

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