Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hear him whip the women
Bench's streak did not stop there. Indeed, it became rather spooky. He beat the Phillies again with a double that drove in the only two runs of the game. He conspired with Battery Mate Gary Nolan to whip the Montreal Expos; Nolan won his eighth game in nine decisions as Bench went four-for-six at the plate, driving in three runs. By the time the Reds returned from that astonishing road trip, Bench had collected 21 hits in 51 times at bat to raise his batting average to .306, and had belted nine homers and driven...
...woman I love" for whom Edward VIII renounced the British throne was not the only one. A forthcoming biography of the late Duke of Windsor, by his friend Frances Donaldson, tells the story of his long friendship with Mrs. Dudley Ward, wife of a Liberal Party whip in the House of Commons. They met in 1917, during an air raid, when Freda Ward took refuge in the cellar of a house where a noisy party was going on. She chatted in the gloom with an unknown guest in his early 20s, and after the all-clear, the hostess pressed...
...which in the '50s was almost exclusively the under-20s. He has kept his original fans-and added their children and parents. Even Rolling Stone, the rock bible, has praised him, though it deplores some of his more saccharine songs, schlocky arrangements and "the tasteless wrapping of Cool Whip" that frequently obscures...
...abruptly to get ready for his announcement to the nation of a near-blockade of North Viet Nam Cabinet members and Pentagon brass stayed behind to answer questions fired at them by the irritated, frustrated Congressmen "There's no change in the pattern," grumbled Leslie Arends, House Republican whip since 1943. "I've yet to sit in on one of these conferences and hear the President say: What do you think we ought to do?' " A presidential aide remarked: "Well what the hell, I think they're used...