Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Democrats?" piece more than 20 years ago and followed it with too many other whithering rants about the donkeys, I have little appetite this time to do it again. After all, the Democrats took flagrantly responsible stands on the two most important issues of the election: in favor of muscular multilateralism abroad and fiscal responsibility at home. John Kerry ran an honorable, if not entirely competent campaign, while the Republicans skimmed the outskirts of the acceptable with their nonstop negativity. And why give ammunition to oleaginous telecharlatans, like James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who have been puffing...
...most expat voters, the overriding issue in the election is Iraq. But their perspective on the war differs from that of voters at home, in part because they often encounter criticism of America's muscular foreign policy. "International issues have more salience for us than someone back at home in Indiana," says McCreery. "Our neighbors are saying, 'What is your country doing?' We really see the international bully aspect of Bush's policies, and people are very determined to vote...
...Like Vic, Winton was born in 1960, a policeman's son who moved from Perth to the south coast as a boy. Unlike Vic, the author hasn't much to be disappointed by. With a cabinet of literary trophies for his clean, muscular prose (Nicole Kidman is negotiating to star in an adaptation of his 2002 Miles Franklin Award?winning Dirt Music), this former small-town boy is the ultimate sea-changer. Yet in The Turning, Winton presides as the deity of disappointment - from the opening lines of the first story, Big World, where two beachcombing mates graduate from high...
...When muscular degeneration set in and walking became difficult, Davis taught students out of her apartment...
Parker, questioning the witness’ account, noted that the muscular Rodriguez, who works as a bouncer, lifted weights regularly until a few months before the fight...