Word: lash
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Violence is his only means of breaking through the impasse. We watch him grimly purify his body and prepare to kill, coiling himself up to lash out, then arming himself to the hilt in order to strike at his enemy, the whole of New York City. After the blood-splattering eruption we see Travis looking pacified, his system freed of the rage. We know there can only be one conclusion: that there was never any solution...
...enthusiastic partisan crowd of 2,000 that gathered last week at a fund-raising banquet in Chicago for Republican Governor James R. Thompson, and the guest speaker took full advantage of the forum to lash out at Democratic critics of his tax-cut bill. "Our proposal is not a 'rich man's windfall,' as some have falsely charged," said President Ronald Reagan to applause. "It is fair, it is equitable, and it is compassionate...
...session develops emotional focus, the American public emerges as an enemy to be distrusted, or more subtly, as a parent who has withheld love and approval so long that the veteran can think only to writhe in frustration, or lash back...
Church-state relations became more stable after 1970 under Gomulka's successor, Edward Gierek, although Wyszynski continued to lash out against specific abuses. Following the bloody repression of the 1976 food price riots, for example, he denounced the government's persecution of the demonstrators...
Criminologists agree that drugs contribute heavily to violent crime; some claim that nearly half of all street crimes are drug related. Drug users either rob and mug to get money to support their habit, or lash out irrationally under the influence of their narcotics...