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tar-and-feathering - definition and meaning
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Nah, all we need to do is storm “the Bastille” and burn the fcuker to the ground, then round up our elected officials and begin the tar-and-feathering …
Think Progress » Brown victory party featured flag calling for a ‘second’ revolution, tea party-inspired civil war. 2010
Nah, all we need to do is storm “the Bastille” and burn the fcuker to the ground, then round up our elected officials and begin the tar-and-feathering …
Think Progress » Brown victory party featured flag calling for a ‘second’ revolution, tea party-inspired civil war. 2010
Even so, that would allow him to end his final term as governor with another budget balanced with blue smoke and mirrors and, hopefully, a minimum amount of tar-and-feathering in the offing.
Sherry Bebitch Jeffe: Biting the Fed's Hand Won't Bring Money to California 2010
The Ku Klux Klan began with cross-burnings that begat tar-and-feathering that begat lynching.
Paul Korda: Another Loser With a Laptop 2010
After eight years of Bush without any presidential tar-and-feathering , I would hope the Democrats would expect that by now.
Was The Media Unfair To Hillary? Here's Our Rundown. 2009
Tom DeLay and Bob Perry make me long for the days of old-fashioned tar-and-feathering .
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
My sister suggests tar-and-feathering -- a fine idea, combining as it does a certain amount of physical pain and, as its images circulate online forever, an infinite amount of humiliation.
Ellis Weiner: An Open Appeal for Suggestions 2008
Sallie learns about tonics, quacks, hair dyeing, tar-and-feathering , and the kindness of strangers.
The WritingYA Weblog: 48 Hour Book Challenge : Mad Maude Rides Again tanita davis 2007
Sallie learns about tonics, quacks, hair dyeing, tar-and-feathering , and the kindness of strangers.
Archive 2007-06-01 tanita davis 2007
Government would be murdered -- freedom of speech be denied; the expulsion of Northern ministers, and the tar-and-feathering of
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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