Word: basher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council-basher. The council does many useful things for us, most of which are underappreciated. Shuttle buses, tailgates, Fly-By lunches, lowered phone rates--all recent council accomplishments for which the leadership and members deserve credit...
...last two years, I, like most of the campus, have been a council basher. I delighted in crashes of 'ucvote' and the "found" $40,000 as examples of council incompetence...
Politics could have been the destructive element for Graham, since he started his rise in the age of Eisenhower and for a time was a fervent red hunter, an admirer of Senator Joe McCarthy and an overall basher of the left, as here in a radio broadcast of 1953: "While nobody likes a watchdog, and for that reason many investigation committees are unpopular, I thank God for men who, in the face of public denouncement and ridicule, go loyally on in their work of exposing the pinks, the lavenders and the reds who have sought refuge beneath the wings...
...teacher-basher," she says. "It's not that I disapprove of the job teachers and principals are doing. It's just that there are some good teachers, and then there are some bad teachers. And the purpose of standardized testing [like MCAS] is to level the criteria...
...What was Goldberg's motivation for getting involved with Tripp in the first place? The longtime Clinton basher claims her aim was purely to prevent the Pentagon worker from being "destroyed," and that the rumors of a book deal are just that. "If there had been a book," she said, "you'd very likely be standing there with it in your hands." Clearly, Goldberg is in need of an image overhaul; little details such as her habit of calling followers "my pretties" and her raucous celebration with son Jonah on the night the Lewinsky story broke have made...