Word: brandishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palestinians most hated by their neighbors are those who brandish Israeli-provided weapons. In the West Bank village of Ya'bad everyone knows -- and shuns -- three Palestinian brothers who watch over the community with binoculars, Uzis and walkie-talkies. Says a resident: "These traitors carry out the army's job, beating people, destroying property and shooting in the air day and night just to scare us." Intifadeh leaders have made such blatant collaboration a capital offense. Other victims are accused of offending Islamic factions by trafficking in drugs and sex. And some are the victims of personal vendettas or tribal...
...from a rule limiting direct investments in risky enterprises to 10% of a bank's portfolio. Though Greenspan wrote to the board on Lincoln's behalf in February 1985, the board turned down the exemption request. But Government officials who let Keating keep control of the S & L still brandish the Greenspan study when they come under fire. If Keating could fool a man as smart as Greenspan, the argument goes, no wonder he could take in five Senators...
American Theatre. "Our more humanitarianmethod is to wave flags and brandish Bibles andremove their source of funding in the name ofdemocracy and decency," said Brustein, theartistic director of Harvard's American RepertoryTheatre...
...fact, all sports have trouble recalling an occasion when the laws of the land superseded or even complemented the rules of the game. Within the white lines, berserk baseball players regularly brandish bats and spikes with legal impunity, and the football and basketball players who rampage beyond the whistle and the pale risk civil reparations at their worst. "It is time now," lectured Provincial Court Judge Sidney Harris, "that a message go out from the courts that violence in a hockey game or any other circumstances is not acceptable in our society." For one thing, he said, it "spills over...
...earned the right, with his 75th birthday coming up next week, to play the old man in winter and affect an air of elegant fatigue. He could, in presenting his fifth State of the Union address, simply brandish the record of his Administration, then settle in before the fireplace and wait for the world to cheer...