Word: rousting
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...they see a police car, has no business saying whether Price has got things right. But the book sounds right; it rings true. Cheap wine, the kind you drink on the front steps, is "stoop booze." That's information worth hanging out to hear. The plainclothes-police raiders who roust the drug dealers two or three times a night are "the Fury," from Plymouth Fury, the beat-up patrol car they drive. "Dicky check" -- genital search for drugs, done in the open and intended to humiliate -- is what the Fury imposes on the "clockers," the young black crack sellers...
Indeed, the typical alternative rock fan (never mind the oxymoron) tends to go through bands like nobody's business, ever on the rampage for the novel and always primed to roust a sell-out. Some divide alternative rock fans into two groups--those who have been at this game for years and those who have only just begun to put bands in the same category as kleenex--use them up and throw them away. The latter are accused of posing; the former, of snobbery. Everyone is, of course, up-to-the-minute hip. Novelty obscures quality sometimes...
...moment, though, the market and not OPEC clearly sets the price of world oil. If the cartel tries to roust its rivals by cutting prices, OPEC may set off a downward spiral that it will be powerless to stop...
...school and hung more crosses. After those were removed last week, a number of students showed up in class with large crucifixes hanging from their necks. The following day, two-thirds of the school's 600 students staged a sit-in. After police threatened to use force to roust them, some of the young people sought refuge in the Church of the Transfiguration, where 2,500 students from nearby schools joined them for a morning of prayer in support of the Mietno protesters...
...seems oblivious to the repeated border incidents which the PLO knew would eventually draw the Israelis into Lebanon. Is Timerman so naive, so purblind as to think the PLO hadn't intended to use the Lebanese they had so long terrorized as a spit on which to roust the Israelis in world opinion? It was an option they always knew they...