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Optimists predicted the LDP's whipping may jar it into taking firmer measures (tax cuts and other stimuli) to fix the economy.
Take Samuel Cartwright, for instance, who in 1851 coined two ingenious new diagnoses to be applied to slaves: drapetomania , or running away (recommended treatment: whipping), and dysaesthesia aethiopis , whose symptoms were sloth and a tendency to break things (recommended treatment: whipping).
A shiver of excitement strikes the line of people waiting four-breast outside Theodore Roosevelt's front gate, and runs in serpentine reflex along Pennsylvania Avenue as far as Seventeenth Street, before whipping south and dissipating itself over half a mile a way.
The park is only accessible by boat — except for the occasional powerboats bringing passengers over from Nassau for a day of snorkeling and picnics on the beach, the only sounds you’ll hear will be the wind whipping through the sails of yachts anchored offshore.
Teachers kept problem children in line with corporal punishments that seem positively barbaric today: They tied children to whipping posts and beat them or branded students for their crimes--a "T" for thievery, a "B" for blasphemy.