Word: ems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your movie. We're the ones who ended the goddam war!" he shouts, and turning to a New York City policeman, adds: "Mow 'em down, why don't you? In 1968 you knew how to mow 'em down...
...enemies he has made" was the boast of Grover Cleveland's supporters in 1884. Teddy Roosevelt gloried in confrontation with tycoons ("malefactors of great wealth"). F.D.R. had his "economic royalists" to pummel. Harry Truman is still celebrated as a man who liked to "give 'em hell...
...Seed 'em first. You mean the men's varsity heavyweights? Yup. How about the varsity lights? Seed 'em first. How about...? Sorry to cut you off but I told you already--seed 'em first. Huh? Seed 'em all first--every one of them. You mean all six crews? Yup, all six Harvard crews; the varsity, J.V., and freshman heavyweight and lightweight eights are all seeded first entering the EARC Sprints in Worcester Sunday...
Perhaps that is why the excerpts of Nixon's memoirs are so thoroughly and predictably disappointing. In a dull, clipped prose more reminiscent of Jerry Ford speaking off-the-cuff than his own roiling Pat Buchanan-William Safire speeches or football-fuck-em vernacular, nothing of the real Nixon emerges. The weird intensity, the paranoid desperation of the man who believed he always knew the right answer, and alone could act upon it, is gone. Instead, we are given a shallow, simplistic portrait of events, with the personality of the Great Vindictor sucked clean out of them. By contrast...
...made, as you assert, "before an appreciative audience of Stanford law students." It was delivered at a seminar on protracted cases for U.S. judges. My speech contrasted judicial control with noncontrol of the protracted Government antitrust case. I did not articulate or advocate the "wear-'em-down" philosophy as your article states...