Word: jettisons
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...every day that a man gets to jettison the ethical and aesthetic standards of a lifetime. Until now, the guiding principle of my journalistic career has been so rock-bottom firm, so bristling with integrity, that it could be etched on my tombstone: HE NEVER WROTE ABOUT DONALD TRUMP...
...Hood, and in Trespass, coming out this week, he is a gun-toting gangster. Although he may play a criminal in movies and in his music, it's a front. Not that he doesn't have an ugly, heavy-metal misogynistic side that he really ought to jettison. But he does show indications of an underlying humanism. On his first solo album in 1990, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, he brought in female rapper Yo-Yo to counterbalance his sexist views. On one track on The Predator, he says, "I do want the white community to understand." On another he fantasizes...
...some, even the fear of agranulocytosis cannot compare with the hollow ache of lost possibilities. Kevin Buchberger, a former Little League star, had to jettison his dreams of playing pro baseball. One patient returned to a favorite fishing hole -- and found an apartment building. Women who have missed the chance to have children stare sadly at the enlarged girth of counselor Kathy Sinkiewicz, pregnant with her second child. Patients eventually have to confront and if necessary "mourn" these losses, says Sinkiewicz. Dancing at a belated high school prom was part of that process, but only the first of many intricate...
Stranger of approached by numerous corrupt types who want to use their tainted money to buy his idea. Among them is reporter Jim Jettison (Director Patrick Tan), who seeks to sell papers by uncovering "sex secrets of the past--where did the Venus de Milo have her hands before she lost her arms...
Liberals, in other words, jettison the old maxim of moral philosophy, "the ends do not justify the means." For liberals, "the ends justify any means whatsoever, even if they're proven wrong." And if you disagree with the means, then you are a fascist...