Word: nastier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...said. “I thought my players responded well…and didn’t retaliate but it got too physical—that’s not women’s hockey.”While the Bulldogs were penalized for some of their nastier plays, including checks and hits after the whistle, the game was one marked by quite a few no-calls. “It is easy to get frustrated when it gets physical, especially in tough games,” said Chu, who drew a hard body check six minutes into the third...
...Republicans ran an ad attacking Ford for his attendance at a Playboy Superbowl party that included a blond white woman saying "Harold, call me' - which some Democrats said was an attempt to play on concerns about interracial dating. Corker himself denounced the ad, but the campaign has only gotten nastier and more heated as Election Day has approached...
...audience: I’m no fan of theocratic excess, but when I encounter such examples of well-dressed, smart people behaving badly, I silently wonder to myself, where are the Saudi religious police when you need them? Some will call this attitude Puritanical, a word that sounds nastier than it should, and will boldly defend students’ “right”—the most overused word of the 20th century—to do whatever they want whenever they want to.But I’m more inclined to agree with what the ethicist Peter...
...surprisingly good manners, few personal attacks and a lack of the down-and-dirty tactics that make elections such fun to watch. That all changed in the last few days leading up to the actual vote, and now as a result, the fight is likely to get even nastier...
...fight until he can end it in a way that clearly rewards his gamble. "Israel must emerge from this war as a winner, or else the war will continue," says Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres. That's an equation that could make for a conflict even longer and nastier than the one that has already surpassed either party's bellicose ambitions...