Word: lashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used it regularly to test opponents' vulnerabilities. The Dole campaign even asked nasty questions about Dole himself to help devise a defense for expected attacks on his tax policies. What is new this time is that voters are tired of hearing politicians slime one another, and are beginning to lash back even at campaign methods as arcane as push polls...
...grandfather admonishing the young, that while all wished the war to come quickly to its close, "if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether...
...phony; anyone who bought a ticket could vote, even non-Iowans, and some confessed to having voted more than once. It was still a test of organizational strength, but it was only the first part of a two-pronged strategy: rough Dole up and then cause him to lash out. So everywhere Dole went last week--from Arizona to South Carolina to Georgia, to Mississippi and Florida--Gramm nipped at his heels. In unsolicited call-ins to radio shows and newspapers along Dole's route, Gramm touted his showing and urged reporters to taunt Dole about Iowa. They...
...basements where frightened residents were hiding, and shooting unarmed residents at random. "TheRussian army was thrown into this combatfor which they were not prepared," says TIME Moscow correspondent Terence Nelan. "The soldiers are angry and frustrated, and all the Chechen fighters are hiding in the hills. So they lash out at the people they can find, the civilians." The military, which blocked international observers for three days, claims it encountered armed resistance...
Meanwhile, the furor in Washington is unsettling Guatemalans, who fear that the army, already racked by internal divisions and under fire for having the hemisphere's worst human-rights record, will lash out because of the disclosures. Officers angered by pressure on the army to reform may have set off a series of explosions near the Guatemala City airport on March 26. "Right now anything is possible--a coup, an assassination attempt on the President or Defense Minister," warned a political analyst close to the military. Washington may have emerged from the cold war, but in Guatemala, military violence...