Word: slays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be in direct competition with Wynn. Oh, the hypocrisy! But even Donald has been trumped. Seven of the 10 homeowners on Bryant Drive have said yes to Wynn's buyout offer, because either they liked the terms or they decided there was no way to slay a giant. It's Atlantic City, after all, where Monopoly is no game. Buy four houses and you can build a hotel. "It's a done deal," said carpenter Clarence Mobley, 46, on the porch of a Bryant Drive house he built himself. He said the offer he accepted from Wynn was about...
...central Republican idea was that the individual, the family, the church, the schools--civil society--were being systematically usurped and strangled by the federal behemoth. Republicans were riding into Washington to slay...
...invitation had sported a black dragon, emblematic of "big, fat and unaccountable" government. Its recipients were invited to help slay the beast at the Doral over New Year's weekend at a cost of $550, plus greens and hotel fees. Party organizers Laura Ingraham and Jay Lefkowitz, both thirtyish Washington lawyers, promised "voodoo economics golf" played with glow-in-the-dark balls and "box aerobics" featuring punching bags done up to resemble well-known liberals. Hard liquor and cigars would be provided. And Ingraham told a reporter that the Saturday night Canterbury Tales Dinner Banquet would feature "wenches running around...
...year playing on the road at Brown (12-1-0, 5-0-0), who is ranked No. 4 in the ISAA Polls and hopes to cruise into the NCAA Tourney. Expected to win by no one except itself, Harvard finds itself in the role of David trying to slay Goliath. However, it has been done before...
Later on, the warlike Desdemona misinterprets Constance's complaint about the "sacred cows" of Academe and announces her desire to slay the bovine monsters. It is this level of misunderstanding--the utterly conventional and predictable--that MacDonald's play attains, and never attempts to surpass...