Word: lash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parades and the praise just made McCain more impatient to live up to the expectations that had been set for him practically at birth. He didn't have time to lash out at the political system that had abandoned him or the counterculture that called his comrades baby killers. His cause was more immediate and personal. "The years he was in prison were like cutting out the fillet of a T-bone steak," says Nancy Reynolds, a longtime Reagan aide who befriended McCain during those years. "After that, John was always playing catch...
Ironically, though, it is just this liberal acceptance that dangerously provokes those who harbor hate or prejudice to lash out violently. Homophobes are feeling pretty out of the loop these days...
...When people get frustrated, they lash out," he said, referring to Reeves, Toomey's and Triantafillou's efforts to end the city manager's contract...
...sheer number of people whom a person can meet in one life, and the arbitrariness to the individual people making up that composite number, are overwhelming. There is neither way nor need to lash yourself down to these variables of chance, people...
...primary, that thankless role was played (and this is what makes the whole thing so delicious) by W.'s father George Herbert Walker Bush. "That elitist label was so unfair," says George W.'s strategist, Karl Rove, who has to say that sort of thing or the Bushes will lash him to the Kennebunkport rocks at low tide. "But Gore is a true elitist--went to the best schools, lived in a hotel, doesn't really seem to like people, whereas the Governor is outgoing and optimistic and has a bold...