Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that: 'There never was an individual less regretted by his fellow creatures.' Cartoonists such as Gilfray, Rowlandson and Cruickshank attacked the monarch in a manner which would look savage even today.' This intense criticism and lack of respect for the monarchy did not produce a serious, widespread consideration to sack it. Edward VIII's abdication crisis in 1936 might have provided some civil liberties rationale for abolition, but it did not. It was clear that the monarchy practiced discrimination in dismissing members of "the firm" for marrying whomever they chose...
...while the memory and apparition of Sainte Colombe's wife sustains him and even works as a muse while he's playing, the memory of Marais emaciates Madeline. Her line, "I've let myself be destroyed by the memory of you" has acute resonance because she is an emaciated sack of bones. By this time, the elder Marais (Gerard Depardieu) is plump and flashily clad...
Cornell's band and numerous other bands play it, so why can't ours? Maybe perform it after a defensive sack or a turnover...
...theme from Jaws could be played after a sack or some hard tackle...
...Peabody, GE's money-losing brokerage unit, where head government-bond trader Joseph Jett concocted $350 million of phony profits over a 29-month period before he was fired in April. Jett now claims to have been acting with the knowledge of his superiors. The scandal led Welch to sack the Kidder chairman, Michael Carpenter, whom he had installed in 1989, and triggered fresh speculation that GE was aching to unload the troubled Wall Street company...