Word: throwing
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...lofty rhetoric that so often accompanies the election season, this year's voters have issued a familiar refrain: Throw the bums...
...been preaching and practicing a strategy of confrontation intended to break the Democratic hold on Congress by fracturing the place itself. By hammering away at its gentlemanly arrangements, its perks and, above all, its Democratic majority, Gingrich aimed to focus enough anger on Washington that voters would finally throw the rascals out. Among the newcomers who would rise in their place, he reasoned, Republicans would at last be the majority again...
Last week the Hubble delivered its preliminary verdict: the universe is between 8 billion and 12 billion years old. That may seem imprecise, but it was specific enough to throw astrophysicists into a state of high anxiety. The problem: our own galaxy has stars believed to be as much as 14 billion to 16 billion years old. And it makes astronomers more than a little uncomfortable to try to explain how stars could have formed before the universe began. Says Alexei Filippenko, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer who was on the team that made the Hubble observations: "This...
...Seasons, O Castles/ What soul is without sin!" Several songs on the CD explore sin, including Franklin, which is about a woman breaking away from an abusive partner. "I'm going to find me a good man who don't drink/ who don't shout/ who don't throw my prized possessions about," sings Keineg, who has a throaty alto with just a touch of mysterious smokiness. Not all her songs work, but the ones that do, such as Hestia (titled for the goddess of domestic activity), have an engaging, combative truthfulness. Keineg says she tries to lose herself...
...endless speculation and discussion of the value of monarchy to Britain, the Economist finally catches the wave of popular resentment, and proposes a referendum to abolish the monarchy in favor of a British republic. Precipitated by the current brouhaha, in other words, lots of Britons are being tempted to throw the entire bad lot away--abolishing royalty guarantees no more royal scandals, because there won't be anybody to be scandalized...