Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lights flicker. Upon the elapse of some decent, manageable labor, she pushes out her baby with honest grunts. While that may be true for some, for most women natural childbirth is one of the most violent physical traumas they will ever experience, bar a serious accident or grievous assault. The average length of labor for a first-time mother is anything from seven to 12 hours, but it can easily be 20 hours or more. During that time, she is wracked by contractions - a euphemism that doesn't even come close to conveying the violent spasms that take hold when...
...only too happy to oblige the Israelis (more than 500 Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants are now in Palestinian jails). But Abbas cannot crack down on militants when Israel is showing its mailed fist, as it has done of late in Gaza. So at the height of the Israeli assault, Abbas was unable to stop one of his lieutenants from releasing 20 Hamas prisoners from Tulkaram jail in solidarity with the Gaza fighters...
...former workplace. She writes, “I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself…The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you. I won’t let that happen.” So, having issued her blunt rhetorical assault, the closest thing Clinton has to a historical precedent can only bring herself to apologize for a political misstep—not a personal prejudice revealed...
...Carswell ’97 is sitting quite nervously on a precarious record at the moment. His all-time school record of 7:57.03 in the 3000m event is currently under assault by a prodigious Crimson freshman...
...State TV presents Iran, and Islam in general, as being under a concerted assault by the U.S. and its allies. One presenter asks his guest, "In this region, Iran has had the most number of elections in the past 30 years. Why is it constantly accused by the West of lacking democracy...