Word: teared
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Other campaigns are encouraged to tear down his posters right away," Hawkins said. "We do not want him to gain any sort of advantage...
...thing, the country is as sick of the subject as a mother who has delivered after a fourteen-month pregnancy. For another, the argument always ruins the evening. This election has fermented into a sort of darkening inebriant that makes people ugly. I find myself going on a toxic tear and firing off lines of crackpot dudgeon - pure postelectoral rant...
...persistence of the Gore legal team is testament to either incredible faith or unbelievable delusion. Despite a sequence of setbacks, the Democratic attorneys continue to tear through the Florida legal system, hoping (somehow, somewhere) to find a judge sympathetic to their cause. After Leon County Circuit Court Judge Sanders Sauls rejected Gore's contest of the Florida election results Monday afternoon, David Boies was raring to appeal, intimating that the case was already well on its way to the Florida Supreme Court...
...soon as the trial recommenced, Bush attorney Phil Beck (who treated Gore statistician Nicolas Hengartner with such disdain Saturday) called his own, heavily accented statistician to the stand. Dr. Laurentius Marais, who spoke with an unidentifiable lilt, was straightforward and extremely convincing as he tried to tear down the basis of the Gore team's statistical argument. The vice president's lawyers, said Beck, are showing us numbers indicating that if all votes were counted, Gore would certainly win. Is their assumption correct...
...Laurence Tribe, who sounded well-stocked with Gore camp sports metaphors, likening the deadline extension to checking a "photo-finish" rather than "changing the rules after the game.") No one rhymed, blustered or whipped out gloves. Perhaps because the "jury" the lawyers were addressing here would be likely to tear them a few new orifices if they went all Dylan McDermott in this courtroom. (And note that the unprecedented SCOTUS tapes turned out to be so titillating, so entertaining, that the major networks didn't bother bumping their soap operas for them. Court TV stuck with the Rae Carruth murder...