Word: paybacks
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...thought of anyone "salivating" to inflict political damage to the opposing side at the expense of a possibly qualified candidate should make every American nauseated. Republicans in the Senate and the right-wing special-interest groups who support them must resist the eminently political desire for payback and give what will hopefully be a qualified nominee a fighting chance...
...This is the match we've been pushing ourselves for all season," senior Brian Jones said. "It's a big payback...
...payback time for the seniors. They didn't care that Yale was down. In fact it was all the more reason to kick 'em and kick 'em hard...
...that Russians had committed in Yugoslavia, Stalin replied, "Can't you understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?" In 1945, Soviet soldiers raped 2 million German women as a massive payback for everything the Nazis had done to Russia. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was a Soviet army captain in East Prussia in 1945, recorded: "All of us knew very well that if the girls were German, they could be raped and then shot. That was almost a combat distinction...
...played hard last night [a 8-3 loss at Brown], but it was just one of those nights when the puck gets away from you," Cahoon said after the Harvard tie. "[Today's game] certainly gives us some light at the end of the tunnel. Our kids get a payback for hanging in there...