Word: weaponize
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...ordeal. The finish line was in sight, but it was guarded by a grizzly--the non-severability amendment that, if passed, would throw all their hard work in doubt. Throughout the week the bill's opponents watched McCain rack up victories, knowing they had this last weapon. But McCain had 150,000 weapons of his own: e-mail correspondents who were kept abreast of the bill's progress and told which Senate offices to barrage with calls and e-mails. On Thursday they made sure that 20 Senate office switchboards were lit up all day. McCain's Straight Talk America...
...There's no substitute for brains and an autonomous mind. The idea, as Emerson says, is to avail yourself "of the checks and balances in nature, as a natural weapon against the exaggeration... of bigots and blockheads...
...other side, Raad resents the attempt to turn Ibrahim into a political weapon. At a rally staged in Ramallah by the Palestinian Authority, he speaks harsh words to his hosts and the crowd: "If you want to find someone to blame for my grandson's death, look further than the soldier who was at the checkpoint that night, look in the mirror, as well. Look at yourself and the Authority, who've negotiated our birthright...
Here's a fun fact to get your blood pumping: One in five teenage boys admits to taking a weapon (gun or knife) to school with him at least once in the past 12 months...
...number of people from Milosevic's security team have been arrested, and even his daughter Maria is facing charges. She was reported to have fired shots, although not to have injured anyone. Still, even if she was found innocent of having actually fired a weapon, they found three handguns in her possession for which she had no permit - that's enough to put her away for five years...