Word: killer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continued occupation of Arab land, were ultimately the best safeguard for Israel's security. In contrast to the ultra-vigilant Netanyahu, they shared a confidence in the country's strength. Barak once said Netanyahu saw Israel as a "carp among barracudas" while he saw it as a "benign killer whale...
...seize control of the shaky Gore presidential campaign? Was it Bill Clinton, as restless as a sidelined Michael Jordan during play-off season, who had been muttering quietly to just about everyone for weeks that his buddy Al's campaign was a mess? Was it the President's killer fund raiser and old Coelho protege, Terry McAuliffe, who fretted daily into his cell phone about the way things were going? Or, wait--maybe it was Dick Gephardt, another Coelho friend, with whom Gore has suddenly become comrades-in-arms again after a nasty Ten Years War? Surely the Speaker...
...cautious to do or say anything bold and original. That came the night before, at a big G.O.P. wingding, when she surprised even some of her top supporters by laying out a gun-control agenda that calls for full federal funding for instant background checks, outlawing all cop-killer bullets, upholding the assault-weapons ban and mandating child-safety locks. The speech received at least one hearty boo, and when it was over, the applause was spotty. "I don't know what she was thinking," said a perplexed resident of the state whose motto is "Live Free or Die." "Half...
William Butler Yeats famously wrote that "The fascination of what's difficult/Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent/Spontaneous joy and natural content/Out of my heart." Winning a Hoopes Prize or landing a killer job is difficult, hence in part its fascination. Toilet ball, by comparison, is easy. There is no minor league of toilet ball, no farm team where you struggle for years before you make the big time. There are no screaming fans either. When you walk on to the playing field for the first time, you're the equal of every toilet ball player that...
...been deluged with complaints from parents whose children were suspended for wearing black or making provocative statements on their web page. "There is a danger that schools are interpreting being different as being dangerous," says ACLU attorney Ann Beeson. "Any nonconformist kid fits some sort of profile of a killer...