Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before the opening-session gavels fell, the air was rife with the shuffling and stomping of party leaders maneuvering for position. The Administration's tactics were: shoot the works, even on such issues as the Brannan Plan and Taft-Hartley repeal, which had little chance of passage, but would presumably make prime political ammunition later on. Administration leaders would plug hard to extend and increase social security, to jar the federal aid-to-education bill loose from the House Education and Labor Committee, to make Congress stand up and be counted on the compulsory health-insurance program...
...subservient Congress, Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo last week became the hemisphere's only chief of state empowered to declare war whenever he sees fit. Technically, this meant that he could strike fast at any Caribbean state harboring Dominican exiles and others plotting against him. He could shoot first, then ask or answer questions in the Organization of American States afterwards...
...congratulatory calls, and "a couple of guys called me up and tried to talk tough. I don't know whether they were Klansmen or not. I gave them my office and my home address and I told them I still had the .45 I used to shoot carabao with...