Word: whips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Indian soldiers and policemen in the streets, Srinagar is enemy territory. At every major crossing, they huddle around sandbag bunkers. They never know when a young man might dash up, whip back his cloak and blast away with an AK-47 rifle. He might kill or wound a soldier or two, forcing the military to give chase and shoot back -- and thus turn more people against the government...
...LOOK WHAT THE IRS PAYS FOR. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has cracked its regulatory whip at a descendant of the Marquis de Sade, an exporter of French champagne. The issue was not unfit bubbly but the bottle's label: a drawing of a nude woman with a chain across her outstretched arms. A new label shows the woman gowned, holding flowers...
Some may question the necessity of the Undergraduate Council or any other group planning our fun. Don't kid yourselves. We need organization to have fun. We need to be able to whip out our appointment books and pencil in "FUN--9:51 p.m. to 12:37 a.m." We need to be able to calculate the optimal factor allocation of work and play in order to achieve maximum efficiency...
...second annual Tour de Trump, America's largest bike race, sponsored by--you guessed it--real estate mogul Donald Trump, will whip through Cambridge during the race's final leg toward Boston on Sunday May 13. The race route runs along Memorial Drive between the Harvard and Longfellow Bridges, and The Massachusetts District Commission plans to close Memorial Drive for the event...
...Administration official. "Too powerful" is putting it mildly. Public Voice, a Washington consumer watchdog group, will soon release a survey showing that between 1985 and 1989, even liberal Democrats took significant sums from Big Sugar's political-action committees -- men like House Speaker Tom Foley ($26,500), House Democratic whip Bill Gray ($14,500) and Senators Al Gore ($13,500) and Paul Simon ($15,250). All have voted with Big Sugar in the past and will probably do so again when New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley's reform bill comes to the floor later this spring...