Word: smiting
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...this tribute to the House's most unashamed demagogue? One reason: the House admires oratory, however bad. Another: the House, enraged by Franklin Roosevelt's taunts (TIME, Feb. 7), had its mind made up to smite the President. Only the day before it had refused to stand up and be counted on the soldiers' vote bill. Now, as Republican Leader Joe Martin saw that he had the votes, a roll call was ordered, and the House howled down the Administration-backed Worley bill, 224-to-168. Then it passed the Eastland-Rankin state-ballot measure...
...dingdong struggle over the Democratic nomination for the Governorship of New York. James Aloysius Farley had kept his man Bennett quiet and withdrawn from the battlefield. This stratagem had two advantages: 1) it kept Silent John from making any mistakes; 2) it left Big Jim free to smite hip & thigh the candidacy of Senator James M. Mead, the man of Franklin Roosevelt...
...height No. 60.8, the decisive point, our division's sector attack has rolled to a halt. The Soviets are sitting tight in a mighty system of forts. But with our new weapons, the heavy mortars, we will out-smite them just as we did at Kerch...
...eagle has been mild as mush, meek as Milquetoast. Ever since Dec. 7, the President has been waiting for him to wade into the ranks of known U.S. Bundists, Fascists and Axis sympathizers. Finally the President could wait no longer. He told Attorney General Biddle to rise up and smite all heathen idolaters...
...Comrades!"cried Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. "Cheer up! Smite the Germans! Burn them...