Word: lashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will has written a number of columns about one of his favorite subjects, New York City, calling it a "fiscal drunk" that "will reform only under the lash of necessity" and arguing that it is "a little welfare state, and that is why it is a shambles, and a welfare case." He still opposes aid to the city, and has consistently praised Ford for his position against it, at least until Ford reversed himself in November. "I think bankruptcy would have been better," he says. "And I own some New York bonds, so I have an interest in saving them...
There seems no practical way for a free country to go about deliberately reducing the chances of producing lonely, disoriented individuals who lash out at a President to fulfill some antisocial personal need. The nation's recent political traumas, especially the Viet Nam War and Watergate, may have heightened passions about its leaders and dissatisfaction with its systems. Political rhetoric may have been inflated enough at times to be inflammatory. Certainly, any such excesses need to be curbed. But Gerald Ford in particular has clearly lowered the level of intensity in his public speeches; if anything, he threatens to lull...
...presidential campaign begins to quicken, and the candidates become more prominent, the threat can come from anywhere at any time. Some of the worst products of American society can suddenly lash out at some of the best. The most harrowing warning came from Squeaky Fromme herself. In the documentary Manson, she coolly pointed out: "Anybody can kill anybody...
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...