Word: stomp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly Goetz's quirky, guileless behavior fits the requirements of the myth better than Actor Charles Bronson's righteous and mean-spirited avenger in the film Death Wish. (Said Bronson last week: "I was raised to believe that if you have snakes in your backyard, you have to stomp on them.") Goetz talked to New York City police for three hours without a lawyer, providing most of the evidence that may be used against him. So far he has avoided any sense of triumph or self-justification, and his few public statements contain little that anyone can disagree with...
With excellent play from Trumbull, Co-Captain Cathy Wong, and freshman Susie Tapson, Harvard went on to stomp its opponents in the first game...
...some white servicemen still rankles: "An insult to any person that's of color on this planet." But the enforced isolation in a strange and dangerous country seems to have made both sides from the U.S. try harder: "See, when the rednecks got together and started to stomp and holler, you either had to go over there and pour beer on the floor and do your little jumpin' up and down, or you stay out of it. That was their thing, and we had our thing. It was good to do it together, 'cause we were...
Reagan and Andropov are like a cranky old couple in a hated marriage. Each dwells upon what he loathes in the other. Each uses any slighting statement as an excuse to stomp into another room. Each refuses to think beyond the domination of the other. The trouble is, the "marriage" involves their shared possession of doomsday power, and the home they will wreck is our world...
...been to downplay both halves of the Soviet ultimatum. According to this attitude, the U.S.S.R.'s military countermeasures will turn out to be more political bark than military bite. As for a Soviet walkout in Geneva, that would be crazy, say many American officials. The Soviets would stomp out of the talks looking like the spoilers. That would put the lie to their advertisements for themselves as infinitely patient good guys in the eyes of Europe...