Word: smiting
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This has been the season of underdogs, of plot twists and reckonings, a Super Bowl for the ages that saw David smite Goliath, a presidential campaign in which humility has all the momentum, since so many have been so wrong about so much. So it was the natural time for the true under-dog to have his moment as well, at the 132nd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, where tuxedoed judges bearing shiny trophies descended on Uno, the merry little beagle that became the first of his kind to win Best in Show, ever...
...been almost 30 years since California approved Proposition 13, one of the most dramatic property tax reduction measures in U.S. history and a revolt that emboldened homeowners across the country. Now, with the middle class again feeling squeezed out of the American Dream, Florida's effort to smite spiraling property levies could influence a new generation of revenue rebels. "The hope is that Florida will come up with something that will be mirrored across the nation," says Jose Cancela, chairman of Floridians For Property Tax Reform...
...gains or corporate profit taxes. Royal then landed Hollande a blow square to the political shorts by tapping party heavyweight Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who contested the primary against her, to lead a study on tax reform. In doing so, Royal not only turned to a recent foe to politically smite her life partner, she also handed economic expert Strauss-Kahn a strategic campaign function that could leave him ideally placed for a prime minister nod should the left triumph. Who is swinging it now, Francois...
...recreate the film, it plunders the Python repertoire for correlatives. Instead of the mock-Swedish subtitles from the film's opening, the show begins with a Finnish fish-slapping dance - this from a song Palin wrote called "Finland" and a bit in episode 28, when John and Michael ritually smite each other with fish to the music of Edward German. Later, a sound-off marching song flicks a reference to Palin's "Lumberjack Song" with the shouted cadence: "Become a knight and you'll go far / In suspenders...
...splendid act of conquest. Convey my regards to all the commanders and soldiers. We shake your hands. We are all proud of the excellent leadership and the fighting spirit in this great attack…Continue this until victory. As in Deir Yassin, so everywhere, we will attack and smite the enemy. God, God, Thou has chosen us for conquest.” Following his election in 1977 as prime minister, he said: “The Jewish people have unchallengeable, eternal, historic right to the Land of Israel including the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the inheritance of their...