Word: hurls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Capitol Hill last week, it was almost as if the two parties had decided to switch roles. At a press briefing, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer was declaring, "Republicans don't have an agenda," a critique Republicans usually hurl at Democrats. The next day Hoyer and other Democrats from the Senate and House, along with state governors, got together to announce the party's unified plan for improving America's national security...
...Vultaggio finds another hit. "People see something exciting, and they remember it," he says. "Think they remember the first time they had C2 [Coke's low-calorie cola]? I doubt it." Sure, you can take the CEO off the street. But that doesn't mean he can't still hurl some bricks...
Like any half-decent Hollywood thriller, every serious political brawl in Washington needs at least one good villain. It's not nearly as much fun or as easy to score points and hurl invective back and forth without a compelling one-dimensional character at the center of it all. Robert Bork played that role magnificently in his 1987 epic Supreme Court battle, as did Clarence Thomas in his more understated performance four years later. More recently, during the bloody conservative revolt over the Supreme Court nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers, the real villain turned...
...With the deepest sympathy for those who are suffering, you still have to wonder why this debate erupts so violently every time the winds howl and hurl water out of their way; God whispers as well as shouts, and mystery comes in all sizes. On any given day in between, an innocent child somewhere is struck by lightning or disease or drowns in the soft frozen river or starves in the drought-wracked desert. Do we only wonder why God lets people die en masse but are content not to ask so long as they die quietly...
France's 35 million voters seemed reluctant, though, to hurl themselves into such uncharted waters. The Socialists, who had been regularly going down to defeat in local and regional elections since 1983, seemed to be picking up votes in the final days of the campaign. Adding to the uncertainty, the election was held against the backdrop of a hostage drama being played out in Beirut, where Shi'ite extremists claimed to have executed one Frenchman and held seven others prisoner...