Word: jugulars
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Perodeau says the turkeys are put down by mechanical means. "My understanding is that they use an electric knife. They hang them up by their legs, cut their jugular veins and let all the blood drain out. It gives them a nice golden-yellow color...
...finally figured out what's gone wrong with the presidential campaign. It's not that the two nominees are usually aiming straight for each other's jugular. We've come to expect that every four years. No, what's wrong with this campaign is that the fine art of lying has died a quiet death...
...want that perception." Friends agree that since his marriage to Elizabeth, he has mellowed, replacing the hatchet with a stiletto. As often as not these days, he makes himself the butt of his own jokes. Reflecting on the 1976 campaign, he quips, "My assignment was to go for the jugular...
...mirror afterwards, stuck out his chin like a cowboy star. When I finished he took a piece of Bazooka Joe from the mason jar, popped it in his mouth, and stabbed me with his fishing knife. Had a right, of course. Been my father, I'd gone for the jugular...
...difference between the two positions is not, as some on both sides of the debate would have us believe, one of morality (divestiture) versus pragmatism (conditional investment). The fact that we discuss our policy towards that country at all means that we are, to some extent, hit in the jugular vein by the plight of South African Blacks and coloreds. But our outrage at the immorality of apartheid does not cloud our conviction that divestiture is the best practical way Harvard can bring about substantive change in that society...