Word: lashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SLIP A QUARTER into my jukebox. Chances are the music will be thin, but with my luck, the management will turn the volume up. Chords that were farfetched or tries-counting become velvety, even lash, and, if you hear the song more than once, you can bury yourself in it as you munch your french fries. You might believe whatever the song tells you-as you swim in the music and hug the jukebox...
...with lash or leaf-Eyes of the girl go deeper...
...outside to show him where he could discreetly relieve himself. Yet Abbott's 24 years in violence-steeped prisons and reform schools, Fisher argued, had caused him to mistake Adan's ordinary gestures for provocation. It was a "tragic misunderstanding," Abbott claimed in court, that made him lash out. The jury, which deliberated for two days, rejected a graver guilty verdict of second-degree murder, which assumes an unmitigated intent to kill...
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...