Word: clobbered
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...this to say: "Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the Right Honorable Gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon." Thank God, anti-Semitic attacks are no longer acceptable discourse in Europe. When we really want to clobber someone, we call him a Nazi or compare him to Hitler. But that doesn't play so well, as Berlusconi and Däubler-Gmelin have learned. So here is a suggestion: If Continental politicos can't think up a suitable retort of their own, why not borrow a rapier...
...marriages. Never mind that shortly thereafter, in the early 1960s, he prosecuted a popular Ku Klux Klan leader and lost re-election because of it. Apparently all that matters is the few hundred words he wrote over 40 years ago. (Advice for Harvard law students: avoid writing, lest someone clobber you over the head with your juvenescent opinions a generation from...
...scour bacterial DNA for new and possibly better targets for drug development. The goal is to produce a compound that works so differently from today's antibiotics that germs won't know how to start developing resistance. Other research has produced drugs that help restore penicillin's ability to clobber resistant germs, provided the compounds are given in combination...
Meanwhile, Weld was hamming it up with beer-guzzling football fans as he watched the New England Patriots clobber the Miami Dolphins...
What researchers now realize is that to treat the joint disease they don't have to clobber the whole immune system, just certain portions of it. Nor do they have to destroy their targets; they can merely stun them momentarily...