Word: lash
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LaVerne Braddock, a caseworker in Wayne County, says she has "never run into so many cases of child abuse in so-called stable families as I have in the past two months. Parents say they can't afford to feed their children. They just lash out at whatever is there...
...crupt in baroque and hyperactive detail. Nick literally tries to slap Mabel back to sanity. When the relatives gather for dinner upon her return from six months in an asylum, he exasperatedly demands. "Conversation! At parties people have conversation--you know--talk!" Near the end, his wife tries to lash her wrists, and in a clumsily symbolic scene. Nick stops the cut with a Band...
PEOPLE COULD identify with the logic of the Johnson murders because they faced the same day-to-day fear and humiliation. When there are a thousand ways to lash out against the systematized caprice of a workplace like that, moral absolutes like "you don't shoot your boss" are turned to mush. There's a special bond between James Johnson and the countless other Rachel Scott describes as people and cites as numbers in her extended piece of journalism about industrial accidents and diseases. A special bond that calls for special terms, like James Johnson's terms, and the terms...
...brilliantly. Terry Hughes scratched the same dust as Brooks Robinson at third and went one-for-five. Hughes made no errors and before each pitch waggled his butt in the air, but Robinson looked like a long-legged goose searching vainly for its eggs when he let Tommy Harper lash one between his pins in the second inning, to give the Bosox a 2-0 lead...
...early fall? Not really, unless Labor by accident or miscalculation proposes legislation that would compel the Conservatives, Liberals and fringe-party M.P.s to unite in a majority against the government. All parties are well aware, though, that the voters are in no mood for another election and might lash out at the party that prompted one. Heath himself, before taking up his seat on the opposition bench, called on Britons "to set aside partisan differences." Privately, he attributed his defeat in part to the fact that the electorate was fed up with slanging-match politics...