Word: prickings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lucid tutor with Reagan. He knew that the President would not abandon his wish to punish the Soviets. Shultz's basic stance was that restrictions on the export of advanced Western technology to Moscow, if the ban had the support of all NATO allies, would far more effectively prick the Soviet economy than would a problematic pipeline-equipment embargo. The Secretary raised the issue of American economic self-interest as well, pointing out that U.S. pipeline suppliers were losing business to European competitors. In the end, the President was convinced by the weight of the thoughtful evidence carefully laid...
...reasons, anti-Zionism served for many as a new, more defensible appellation for the same old, inexcusable prejudice. Jewish journalist Jacobo Timmerman's Argentine captors and torturers claimed to have no objection to Judaism--only to Zionism--as they subjected him to an electroshock machine and screamed frenetically, "Clipped Prick!" Must recently opposition to Israel's statehood has become an unconvincing disguise, and many anti-Semites have switched to a new strategy--quite the rage in light of the Lebanon invasion--of sweepingly condemning Israel's political behavior...
S.O.B., the culmination of six years of work, was to be a presentation of what really goes on out West from an autobiographical point of view. But rather than a sword thrust into the guts of the ball-breaking capital of the world, Hollywood receives merely an annoying pin-prick...
...Play ball!," the surest and happiest sign of spring, has sounded once again. The crack of the bat has replaced the clack of the auctioneer's gavel selling off free-agent flesh. Players safe in their tax shelters now worry only about being safe at first, and owners prick their ears for the sweetest music they know, the clatter of turnstiles. The baseball season has begun...
...Kill that tall skinny prick...