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Word: whips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also gave a guest lecture in a course on Congress and the press taught by former Sen. Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyom.). Simpson, who now directs the Institute of Politics, was the Republican majority whip under Dole, the no. 2 leadership position in the Senate...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Elizabeth Dole Will Address Kennedy School Graduates on Class Day | 4/3/1998 | See Source »

...point is that there has always been fastfood in China. You could find it on the street.You could stop and someone would whip something upquick, so that's been there for hundreds of years...

Author: By David J. Kressel, | Title: Eat, Drink, James, Watson | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...Cadillac. In with the Toyota. But first, out with the President, via Watergate: nearly two years spent sifting through the rubble of Richard Nixon. Whatever hopes of a clean start were raised by Gerald Ford collapsed under the Nixon pardon and an economic crisis as impervious to Ford's WHIP INFLATION NOW buttons as it had been to Nixon's wage-and-price controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1973-1980 Limits: The Can't-Do Mentality | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...sound like cruel and unusual punishment, but Zhu's résumé might just be equal to the challenge. Credited with everything from taming inflation in three years to being the driving force behind Shanghai's economic miracle, Zhu is widely admired in the West as a whip-cracking manager open to innovation, and as a man of his word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Mission Impossible | 3/4/1998 | See Source »

...certainly all these things pale in comparison to what it must have been like to be a slave or a black American in the '50s. Even in my most painful and profound encounters with racism, I have never felt the lash of a whip, or been used as a breeding machine, or been spit on for trying to enter a whites only school. Does this mean we have made progress against the foe of racism? Not nearly enough, as I see it. Because even though I may not know the smart of the whip any more than a white person...

Author: By Carine M. Williams, | Title: Defining Progress | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

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