Word: fistedly
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...discussion about our future and his opinions about these baby names: Miles, Ezra, and Chennifer. Best way for a guy to get your attention: Punching me in the face. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Probably with my blockmates. First thing you notice about a guy: The fist he just used to punch me in the face with. Your best pick-up line: Do you like gold? ’Cause I’m an alchemist. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I’m an alchemist. Something you?...
...least in part a response to the communists’ continued efforts of insurrection against Pinochet’s government. The 1986 assassination attempt—killing five of Pinochet’s bodyguards—is an indication of the gravity of the communist threat. Sometimes the iron fist is a necessary prerequisite to peace, order, and even freedom—an unfortunate reality of human affairs. One has to look no further than the now very visible disaster in Iraq that followed the deposing of Saddam Hussein for an example of what can happen without...
...Along with the iron fist, Pinochet epitomized another specter that still haunts Latin America: a dogmatic mind. If it continues, the region's addiction to ideological governance - the chronic oscillation between right-wing and left-wing - will keep it from entering the 21st century as surely as Pinochet and leftist despots like Fidel Castro kept it from entering the 20th. Chileans seemed to indulge the old habits Sunday night as Pinochet backers and haters squared off in the streets. But perhaps the reason that Chile's democratic institutions are still more the exception than the rule in South America today...
...months now, al-Maliki has promised to deal with the sectarian violence with ?an iron fist? - that's his expression. He will undoubtedly make similar promises in the course of his visit to Jordan. But Iraqis have learned from bitter experience that their lame duck leader does little more than quack...
...same purpose, demonstrating the grotesqueness and absurdity of war.The exhibit’s stress on the importance of the show in a university setting is illustrated especially well by the collection from the 1969 protests at Harvard. Imperatives scrawled on top of the image of a clenched red fist on a t-shirt from the time represent a call to arms on campus: the words “strike because your roommate was clubbed” were based in events as real as “strike because there’s no poetry in your lectures?...