we pull[ed] the trigger

demonstrate consequences
express admonition . ..
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deliver accountability

"… Romney got virtually no sleep Monday night, an aide said, blaming a freight train that passed through a grade crossing near the hotel and blew its horn roughly every hour all through the night. The candidate’s sleep deprivation so worried his staff that the campaign looked into switching hotel"

- My Cousin Vinny “Did you say Gerry Gallow? No … my name is Gerry Callow, with a C”

(Source: BuzzFeed)

8 months ago