Word: poisonously
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...infertility a trauma that begins to blur the boundaries between psychological and physical pain until it becomes an unbearable torment to her ("Every woman has enough blood inside her for three or four children," she says despairingly, "and if she doesn't have them, it'll turn to poison...
...surprising is that he discovered school vouchers--cash stipends that can be used to help pay private-school tuition--from a black community activist like Sorrell. For a long time, politically active African Americans and the Democratic Party that most of them belong to have looked upon vouchers as poison apples intended to kill off public education. Even programs financed by private donors are suspect, since those might persuade legislators that taxpayer-financed vouchers would be a good next step. But with inner-city schools in a state of permanent crisis, lower-income blacks are being drawn increasingly to vouchers...
...King insisted that the Israelis supply an antidote to the poison their hit men had inflicted on Meshal. Netanyahu complied, and an American doctor from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., was summoned to treat Meshal, who was released from the hospital last Thursday. But Hussein remained outraged and by Saturday was refusing even to talk to the Israelis. On that day he telephoned President Clinton and asked him to intervene to resolve the crisis. Several U.S. officials scrambled to find a resolution, urging Netanyahu to do whatever was necessary to mollify the King...
When Malick gives concrete notes, he tends to speak in metaphors as singular as the images in his films. He talks about the "green poison of war," and instructed one actor to play a scene like "a squid being thrown up on the beach from the abyss." On the other hand, the stage directions in his script could be dauntingly airy for an actor: "Fife's terror passes gradually over into a longing for life and peace." How do you play that...
McCain said he would not support that amendment, often called a "poison pill" by legislators who rely on union contributions...