Word: lashing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fraud in a widening federal corruption probe, the Cook County Republican Party had gone so far as to offer a $10,000 reward to anyone who could provide information leading to the conviction of the mayor himself, and suddenly he seemed a bit like a wounded animal, ready to lash out or, alternatively, plead for sympathy. "It was deeply offensive to me [and] my family," he told reporters after a city council meeting last week, his eyes tearing up and his face turning red. "I understand that things get really dirty and ugly and messy, but this crosses the line...
...than ducking, or covering up. They make improvements rather than excuses. They work hard. They do their jobs. They prepare. Connecticut’s championship women’s basketball teams face practices that are harder than games, e.g. playing 5 against 8. Those who are slipping tend to lash out, blame others, whine and complain and neglect preparation and practice...
...worse off." But Firas insists today's troubles are the toxic legacy of Saddam. "After 40 years of damage by Saddam," he says, "Iraqis don't know how to use freedom." The doctor retorts, "If you keep blaming Saddam, we will not go forward." Radhy does not lash out at the U.S. the way many Iraqis do, but he is troubled by the occupation's failure to bring much more than hopeful notions to Iraq. "We keep asking ourselves," he says, "how a country as great as America, after one year, can't keep electricity running, can't keep...
...Agha Sherzai, a U.S.-installed warlord who has been dogged by accusations of corruption and nepotism, to a Cabinet position in Kabul as a way of keeping him under close watch. But Afghan officials say Karzai is wary of cracking down too hard for fear that the warlords will lash back. In Kabul alone, militias loyal to former President Burhanuddin Rabbani and current Defense Minister Mohammed Qasim Fahim number nearly 50,000. That's enough to overwhelm, if they wanted to, the 6,000 NATO peacekeepers and take over the presidential palace. Government officials outside the capital are even more...
...column. He says that beatings took place nightly, and that he sometimes heard the screams of women. Neighbors of Qisme Ibrahim al-Quraishi say she turned up dead 10 days after she was arrested for letting prostitutes use her home. When her family cleaned her for burial, they found lash marks on her back and raw flesh where her fingernails had been...