Word: stabs
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...From hell's heart I stab at thee!" spumes Captain Ahab (Gregory Peck) as he harpoons the great white beast. "For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee, thou damnèd whale!" Yes, this version of the Melville novel has its starchy parts, and Peck takes a while to shake off his trademark decency and slip into Ahab's rasping obsession. Plus, the film's mechanical whale, which looks like a great slab of lard with a cold blue eye, kept sinking when it was meant to swim. But what matters is the saline tang...
...Instead, armed with a green card, McKenzie took a stint on Broadway and a stab at Hollywood, but neither made much of a splash. Munched by a shark in Deep Blue Sea (1999), the New York Times groused: "Jacqueline McKenzie plays a character so vague she might be best described as the movie's extra (and most disposable) woman." Her career philosophy has always been to "throw it all up on the ceiling and something might stick," but for a while nothing much did. Here was the case of a remarkable actress waiting for the next character to click...
...anymore go fifty-fifty with the Syrians." That's the message Hariri had just given Rustum Ghazali, the chief of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon. He rejected Ghazali's demand that pro-Syrian candidates be included on his electoral ticket. "I'm not going to work with people who stab me in the back," Hariri told colleagues...
...that no knife attack can ever be the last. "The guards can't solve all this fighting," laments one convicted murderer, Kenneth Foutenette. "The only solution is the inmates." Says William Charles, a lanky con in his 20s serving an eight-year sentence: "It's fighting for race. They stab someone, and we get 'em back." Above Charles' sink, like a battle flag, hangs the distinctive red kerchief of the Bloods, a major gang syndicate that runs a lucrative retail cocaine trade not only on the streets of south-central Los Angeles but also inside the walls of the prison...
...senior also provided what may have been the Crimson’s best moment of the day, a diving stab in left field to rob Jared McGuire of a sure double in the seventh...