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Word: smiting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...olive branch of peace she had extended to the Communist rebels throughout her 13-month presidency. "Police and military action, not social and economic reforms, is the immediate solution to terrorist acts," she told an audience at the Philippine Military Academy. Earlier that day she had pledged to "smite the foe on the left and the right." Said Aquino: "I want a string of honorable military victories." Her speech represented a dramatic shift in tactics aimed at ending both the 18-year Communist insurgency and coup threats by military officers loyal to former President Ferdinand Marcos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Tough Words from the Top | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

Thus says the LORD of hosts, "I will punish what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came out of Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have, do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. (1 Samuel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bible | 4/28/1982 | See Source »

...context of the loony personalities, slick p.r. firms and confused politicians, Kuttner clears away the inevitable confusion to find that the revolt against property taxes was not only understandable, but justified. Taxes on middle class homeowners had grown ludicrously high, and, the owners, in their indignation, rose up to smite them...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Render Unto Jarvis... | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

...Dockie Shipp Weems' School of Expression in Nashville, rose up before the 1956 Democratic Convention and demonstrated a dying art. His keynote address that night beside the Chicago stock yards was a symphony of rhetorical excess, a masterpiece of alliteration and allusion, an epic of the smite-'em style of oratorical Americana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline and Fall of Oratory | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

...whores of Pocock, mothers of abomination, housewives wallowing in your adulteries, the Lord will smite you. Lolling in your tubs scented with bath oils, in houses equipped with burglar and fire alarms. But what are ye safe from while imperiling your own souls? For he who said he would come as a thief in the night will do even so, and all your alarms will avail you naught in that hour when ye shall see him face to face . . . For in that dread day you shall get the message. Without CB . . . it shall be, that's it, buddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Love and Lechery Overlap | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

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