Word: potshot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cause any havoc with other electronic gear, automatic garage doors or pets with sensitive hearing. Though the technology is now being pitched to children, it could eventually lead to some interesting possibilities for grownups. Saving the universe is one thing, but how about being able to take a potshot at J.R. Ewing on Dallas...
...with hardened criminals." In fact, the report had originally gone even further, suggesting that legalization might eventually emerge as the best approach to pot. An N.A.S. review panel and the committee agreed, however, to water down that observation. The only solace for the committee may be that the official potshot at the report has brought it attention it might not otherwise have received-a self-defeating result that is somewhat analogous to the committee's view that prohibitions on marijuana use are self-defeating for U.S. society...
...equally critical theme for Will is "The War Against the Totalitarian, 1939,"--a war he helps wage with some of his most eloquent passages. Limiting his attacks to the Soviet Union, except for an occasional potshot at Iran. Will incessantly argues against maintaining any political, economic, or cultural relationship with Russia. "Since November 8, 1917, every assumption adopted, every premise clung to by people eager to rationalize a policy of accommodation toward the Soviet Union has been shredded by events." Searching, as he does with all subjects, for the historical coincidence to add meaning, he notes wryly that "Solzhenitsyn finished...