Word: lese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pursued it (in China, the Philippines and elsewhere) with relentless inhumanity. To turn the Japanese into the victims of World War II, and the Americans into the villains, seemed an act of something worse than ignorance; it had the ring of a perverse generational upsidedownspeak and Oedipal lese majeste worthy of a fraud like Oliver Stone...
...always fixing haircuts from Great Cuts or someplace lese," Fenerlis says. "They'll probably sue me for saying that...
...perfectly articulate. The New Hampshire primary amounted to a cry of anger, disgust and pain that was above everything else a warning to George Bush, a kind of political death threat. New Hampshire's Republicans gave only 53% of their vote to the incumbent President -- a stroke of lese majeste that distantly recalled the 50% that New Hampshire Democrats gave Lyndon Johnson in 1968, when Eugene McCarthy took 42% and helped force L.B.J. to withdraw...