21.   He is seen here as a man who may crack the whip better than Mandela did.

22.   He cracked the whip in his two-plus years as speaker and the House was better organized for it.

23.   He felt he had to crack the whip at the end.

24.   Holtz cracked the whip academically on the players who had been falling behind.

25.   In one of the best sequences, Liu gets to play dominatrix and crack a whip for a lecture hall full of cotton-mouthed Poindexters.

26.   Lawmakers have yet to crack the whip, though, largely because both parties like the patronage when they control the White House.

27.   Nevertheless, he is cracking the whip as if he were king of the Hill.

28.   Nor, it seems, can Ito prevent a hung jury, no matter how vigorously or gently he cracks his whip.

29.   Only in a flashback scene where Delany in full dominatrix drag cracks a whip is there even a hint of what Rice was actually writing about.

30.   Others say cracker originally was applied to Florida cowboys, and derived from their cracking their whips as they herded cattle.