Word: placing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Pagliuca, shown to have gained the support of 14 percent of poll respondents, said he was pleased with his position in the race. “We moved from nothing to second place in [a span of] three weeks,” he said when asked about his reaction to the recent poll...
...We’re going to keep talking about making Massachusetts a great place,” added Pagliuca, who has adopted a platform that emphasizes proposed health care and financial reforms...
...election to decide the Democratic nomination is currently slated to take place on December 8, after which candidates will have six weeks to prepare for the general election on January...
Most importantly, however, the MacManuses enjoy the unspoken support of the Boston Police Department, which falls all over itself to keep them safe and out of jail as the body count rises. Taking the place of morally conflicted FBI Special Agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe) is his protegé Eunice Bloom (Julie Benz), a sassy southerner who stalks the city in Christian Louboutin stilettos and keeps her gun in a leather holster draped about her svelte waistline. Sharing her mentor’s clairvoyant crime detection abilities, she manages to simultaneously anger and entice her male coworkers while conjuring...
Have you heard of “The Boondock Saints”? Two Irish brothers enter a room full of Italian (or Russian) mobsters. Gothic techno plays in the background. In beautiful synchrony, the brothers shoot everyone and then place coins in the eyes of the dead. They cross themselves and say a prayer, bidding the soul of the dead a swift departure to their hellish punishment. And then they crack a joke and revel in how easy it all is—how fucking cool killing people...