Word: devourers
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...Party officials led by chairman Franz Müntefering have delivered a ferocious critique of private investors that has dominated the campaign. In his most cited remarks, Müntefering compared private equity groups and short-term investors like hedge funds to "swarms of locusts" that fall on companies, devour all they can, and then move on. "Some financial investors don't waste any thoughts on the people whose jobs they destroy," he told a German newspaper. The fire and brimstone is part of the spd's effort to woo back voters disillusioned by the government's own economic reforms...
...you’re hungry now, and you get that way often, then the mural of a mermaid on the wall at Pinocchio’s has probably assumed the position of that flicker that Schimert talks about. You go in for some tomato basil, and while you devour it, a blond mermaid sits behind you in her sea-world, also munching on a slice...
...enter after the appearance of this seething volume. According to the author, the Mother Goddam of movies for four decades was something else offscreen. The paranoid figure saw herself as a feminine version of Gulliver. "Never relax," she warned B.D., "or the Lilliputians will climb up your legs and devour your soul." No defect goes uncharted, from the star's alcoholism to violent maledictions from her fourth husband, Actor Gary Merrill: "The only people who can be around you for long without wanting to kill you are faggots...
...what I had to do. I'm not a politician. I'm a fighter." The next morning, touching the stitch line above his nose, Hagler said, "I'm not scared of blood. Matter of fact, it turns me on sometimes. The monster comes out." He would like to devour someone else before the year is over, for another $5 million to $8 million or much less. An opponent is the problem. "Let's do it again," Hearns offered vaguely, meaning in the distant future. The Detroiter needs some time to recall he is a boxer, and the conqueror must...
Following his speech, it was the female athletes’ turn to devour doughnuts. The women’s water polo team, eager to vindicate a last place finish the year before, attended a stomach stretching dinner earlier that evening. Upon a third place finish, the team cheered, “We didn’t come in last this year...