Word: guttered
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...Eisenhower had a wider middle in mind, which served him well as a political credo. He deplored categorizing people "as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road." The people he despised were those who "go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center...
...most appropriate that the members of the Symbionese Liberation Army be shot down like the common gutter rats that they really are. What is needed now is restoration of the death penalty to deal with the ones who are captured, such as the murderers of the Oakland school superintendent. Allowing them to live in prisons is an invitation for the formation of other groups...
...This thing is closing in on the President pretty hard right now." Said a Southern Senator: "You have to realize that these Southern members of Congress are not going to let their conservative leanings sway them if there is a clear moral issue involved. They are talking about the gutter language indicated in the transcript. They are deeply anguished that such a locker room climate prevailed in the White House, led by the President himself...
...role, knows when to play it and when to step aside and parody it. Sometimes they do both at once, which is good for keeping everyone off balance and juicing interest even higher. Whatever the Stones play at, they remain the definitive rock-'n'-roll group, gutter-hard, brash and tough and tight. They are real monsters in the contemporary sense: outrageous, fine, unstoppable, uncatchable. Call them the best rock-'n'-roll band in the world...
...skeptical legislature to authorize construction. In the process, he probably forfeited his hopes for the presidency. "Clinton, the federal son of a bitch/ Taxes our dollars to build him a ditch," ran one barroom refrain. The canal was variously dubbed "Clinton's Folly," "the Governor's Gutter" and "that damfool dig." Yet it was an immediate success, opening new cities and industries with every section, returning in tolls and levies its $7 million construction cost in less than ten years of completion. It proved one of the most profitable ventures in the nation's history, and even...