Word: crushes
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...doubles, sophomore Hank Parichabutr teamed up with senior Dave Clark to crush the West Virginia team...
...contended that "Gaddafi is temporarily quiescent in his support of terrorism." The Journal wrote that Administration officials were convinced the U.S. air strikes had "sparked several mutinies in the Libyan military" and even quoted unnamed officials as claiming the Libyan air force "had to send hired Syrian pilots to crush the rebellions." Whether or not this occurred, the Poindexter memo noted that by mid-August Gaddafi was "firmly in control in Libya...
Conservative Moral Theologian Germain Grisez of Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland sees John Paul's cleanup as one of historic proportions, comparing it with Pope Pius X's effort early in the century to crush the modernist movement. That dispute, says Grisez, "was basically a much smaller thing than what's happening now." Similarly underscoring the significance of the situation, the Vatican's official spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, stated last week that "this phenomenon of dissent, in the U.S. and elsewhere, touches the very nature of the church. The real question is no longer abortion, or even moral...
...abuse. Entranced by the words of the President and other high-ranking officials, many Americans now think that drugs are our nation's worst problem. But far worse than Reagan's effort to make drugs a partisan issue is his willingness to violate rights of others in order to crush the enemy...
...crusading Giuliani admits that the old practice of locking up a capo or % two "just helped to speed the succession along." But by striking at all levels of the Mob families and then "peeling away their empires," Giuliani insists, "it is not an unrealistic goal to crush them." Perhaps. But first there are two new and potentially historic courtroom battles to be fought. For the Mob, and for an optimistic new generation of federal crime fighters, it is High Noon in New York...