Word: thuggish
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...presidential transformations can be reversed. The presidential Nixon of 1969 ended as the bitter, thuggish ghost of San Clemente. Lyndon Johnson, messiah of the Great Society, finished his life as the King Lear of the Hill Country. And Bill Clinton, the shoeshine and the smile of the '90s, confirms everyone's worst suspicions as he departs...
...Right now, there is a vague presumption among Americans that Gore is the down-and-dirty cheater and Bush is the honest cheater. Bush is using tactics we all are used to, sabre-rattling press conferences and thuggish spokespeople and vague threats to do something really nasty...
...only conclude that spending all that time in the crime capital of New England must be the reason why the Bulldogs have cultivated a thuggish approach to such a pure sport...
...regime morphed from a monolith into a weird, militarized soap opera, and it seemed no one, perhaps not even Fujimori, understood how the plot was unfolding. Was the President still running the show? Was he resigning, as he suddenly promised? Would he, as he declared, really clean up the thuggish security apparatus that had done so much to blacken his administration's name? Would the nation's powerful military back him or revolt...
...ended there, the incident might only be notable for its absurdity: adult men fighting over a kids' version of a thuggish sport. But when Costin, 40, emerged from the locker room, Junta was there. The men started brawling. At six foot one and 275 pounds, Junta overwhelmed Costin, 100 pounds lighter, and allegedly beat him into a coma. Two days later, Costin - a part-time carpenter and single father of four - was dead...