Word: prickingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hand, I couldn't care less, because I know that wickedness is a part of human nature, and such wickedness comes from our enemies. Considering the road that we have chosen, a road that is opposed to the superpowers it is normal that the servants of foreign interests prick me with their poison and hurl all kinds of calumnies against me. . . Dictatorship is the greatest sin in the religion of Islam. Fascism and Islamism are absolutely incompatible. Fascism arises in the West, not among people of Islamic culture. . . Fascism would be possible only if the Shah were to return...
...PRICK UP YOUR EARS...
...have to guess at this. I respect actors, encourage them to flex their muscles and work as a team. There's always trouble with temperaments, of course, but even with the huge cast in "A Wedding" there wasn't a bad guy in it...we couldn't find the "prick...
...item in their renaissance goals. In the land cases, the Indians' willingness to settle out of court, even with the law on their side, forces one to wonder whether the stunning size of the claims has not been intended mainly to arrest the attention of the nation, to prick its conscience, to arouse a more thoughtful response to the larger Indian awakening. If so, the campaign has won a measure of success already. The proof: intervention by President Carter, at Justice's suggestion, in efforts to achieve settlement of the Maine case...
Afterward McKay refused to congratulate his conqueror, Coach John Ralston, who came to Denver out of Stanford. Instead, he called Ralston a ten-letter word, "for stacking on the points." When Ralston was mentioned in a press conference, McKay chomped a cigar. "He's a prick. He always was a prick. I hope he gets fired," said this devoutly civilized man. From another world Lombardi smiled ferociously...