Word: assailants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...aftermath of Thursday night’s debate in Coral Gables, Fla., the Bush campaign marched north through Allentown, Pa.—stopping to assail “the senator from Massachusetts”—before arriving in Manchester, where the president repeatedly invoked the Commonwealth as though it were a founding member of the axis of evil...
...squarely at the minority of undecided voters who may determine the election. Swing voters don't look backward, contends Matthew Dowd, Bush's chief strategist. "They want to know what you are going to do with a next term." What's more, the risk for Bush in continuing to assail Kerry is that undecided voters might pay less attention to the substance of the attacks than the simple fact of them and resent the President for dividing a country that may be longing to heal and fight...
...work. Playing a 17-year-old, she never imparts the slightest hint of calculation in her reactions. She is pure instinct--at once, for example, eager for boys yet wary of them--full of flashing anger, impatient for adventure, sexual and otherwise, yet also full of doubts, which assail her when she thinks no one is looking. This isn't acting, it's behaving. And it is behaving with a point. Without quite knowing it herself, this child-woman wants to become the good person that she inarticulately senses is hidden beneath her heedless petulance...
...thankful to learn that his high school sweetheart Tracy had recently split up with her husband of two years. Johnson was somewhat less thankful to discover that the marriage ended when a suspected infidelity drove her husband into a state of raging delirium that caused him to assail his wife’s lover with an aluminum baseball bat. Johnson was even less thankful to discover that Tracy’s ex is still on the loose. Johnson, however, was least thankful to learn all of this after sleeping with Tracy and making her finally realize — four...
...seized on the first question to assail Bush’s record, saying Bush embodies “neither [the] conservatism or [the] compassion” that he espoused during his campaign. Clark said he embraces the core Democratic platform, noting that he is pro-choice, favors affirmative action, environmental protection, comprehensive health care coverage and involving our allies in multilateral foreign policy...