Word: ejection
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...military occupation and parlayed that reputation into a seat at the political table. And so now, just when it appeared that he might be marginalized again, the Iraqi government has burnished Sadr's image as a leader who defies the United States and an Iraqi government that refuses to eject U.S. troops...
...parties that form the dominant block in parliament routinely complain that they are shut out by the Prime Minister and his coterie. A faction of his own Dawa Party, led by his predecessor Ibrahim al-Jaafari, has begun quietly to seek a new Shi'ite-Kurdish alliance that would eject Maliki. And another former prime minister, Iyad Allawi, is trying to cobble together a secular-Sunni alliance that would put Allawi back...
...decades at the corners and behind the plate. He broke up one of baseball's scariest fights when an enraged Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants clubbed Los Angeles Dodgers catcher John Roseboro on the head with a bat. He also had the nerve to eject a manager in the World Series: Baltimore's voluble Earl Weaver, in the fourth game of the 1969 series with the New York Mets, the eventual champs. In poetic lockstep, his sons followed in Dad's officiating footsteps--Jerry in baseball and Joey in the NBA. Crawford...
...ball outside. But the home plate umpire saw it differently, calling Wilson out on strikes and garnering a loud response from the visitors’ dugout. Assistant coach Todd Carroll offered the angriest reaction and received the strongest rebuke, as the home-plate umpire made a quick move to eject him.“I have never seen a call like that before—that’s what really got our bench roaring,” Walsh said, referring the initial strikeout ruling. “It was tough to take. At the same time, you can?...
Drake says the jokes get at a "larger truth" about Franken: he's got an anger issue. He once literally tackled a stubborn heckler at a Howard Dean rally after the security staff failed to eject the man. And at the 2003 White House correspondents' dinner, he greeted Karl Rove with the words "I hate you." (Franken has said they just "gibed each other a little...