I claim it has to be "gantlet," and he of course says, "yo mama!". From Wordnik.com. [The State of Things] Reference
It's been a year since drunken naval aviators at the Tailhook convention assaulted 26 women in a "gantlet" at the Las Vegas Hilton, and no officer has been charged. From Wordnik.com. [Tailhook: Throwing Down the Gantlet] Reference
Arroyo knows that she faces a gantlet of problems. From Wordnik.com. [Gloria's Poverty Problem] Reference
Next, a gantlet of automated paddles sorts bags by flight. From Wordnik.com. [Airlines' Expert on Missing Bags Fights Lost Cause] Reference
February 4, 2008: Running the gantlet of Homeland Security. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: February 4, 2008: Running the gantlet of Homeland Security] Reference
OpEdNews - Quicklink: February 4, 2008: Running the gantlet of Homeland Security. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: February 4, 2008: Running the gantlet of Homeland Security] Reference
The worst was the gantlet, present during each of the convention's three nights. From Wordnik.com. [Tailhook: Scandal Time] Reference
Researchers shepherd consumers through a gantlet of odors to gauge their reaction. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Smell of Moroccan Bazaar] Reference
She did not wish to run the gantlet of Mrs. Beaseley's volubility on this occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
May our American civilization never have to run the gantlet of such a terrible trial!. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
But multiracial teens who run the gantlet often emerge with a stronger sense of self. From Wordnik.com. [Color My World] Reference
Before you can buy in, you have to pass through a gantlet of physical and mental tests. From Wordnik.com. [To Move or Not to Move?] Reference
Few of the 2,100 witnesses questioned were asked if they had seen admirals near the gantlet. From Wordnik.com. [Tailhook: Throwing Down the Gantlet] Reference
Pacific, in Nebraska and Wyoming, have been running the gantlet between bands of train robbers. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference
Women and children vacated the place, and the trains coming in and out had to run the gantlet of the. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
In 1995 the nation ran a remarkable gantlet of amusements, the most gaudy of which was the Revolution. From Wordnik.com. [1995: Oh, A Revolution] Reference
If she can survive this gantlet, Governor Palin could help Mr. McCain with some liabilities of his own. From Wordnik.com. [A Reform Ticket] Reference
But the important thing is that the president is throwing down the gantlet and saying: "The time is now.". From Wordnik.com. [The First 1,000 Days] Reference
A narrow gantlet formed, and within minutes Muhammad Ali appeared with an entourage and headed up the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [Puff Daddy's Black and White Ball '98] Reference
But they made it safely through the gantlet of giggling high-school girls lined up to get into Planet Hollywood. From Wordnik.com. [We'll Take Manhattan] Reference
There aren't many elected officials in Washington who want to throw the gantlet down on Iran more than Hillary Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [The Hillary and George Show] Reference
At Camp Mobutu, children, women and men ordered some former soldiers to walk on their knees through a gantlet of taunts. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
A few of us have actually gone through the gantlet in which the few became even fewer and were christened Fighter Pilots. From Wordnik.com. [On Being A Warrior] Reference
"They're trying to create this gantlet for women to go through and aren't in the business of providing health care at all.". From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Line] Reference
To heighten the sense of drama, he directed the people in the gantlet to scream and moan as though they were being stabbed. From Wordnik.com. [Obsessive-compulsives follow psychologist on trek to confront their fears] Reference
Grayson issued each of them a paring knife and told them to walk through a gantlet formed by the other members of the group. From Wordnik.com. [Obsessive-compulsives follow psychologist on trek to confront their fears] Reference
There's a common assumption that when a drug makes it to market, it has run a rigorous gantlet of testing and proper disclosure. From Wordnik.com. [What You Don't Know About a Drug Can Hurt You] Reference
Having at last run the gantlet, we found ourselves in the refectory of the monastery, inhaling a thick steam of fish and cabbage. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
After destroying the papers, they elected to ride on and run the gantlet, rather than be captured as spies and shot ignominiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
They can pretend that they're not really granting immunity, because the telecoms have to run this oh-so-daunting judicial gantlet. From Wordnik.com. [A Time-line Of Obama's Statements On FISA] Reference
The outer office was a gantlet that Mike the Angel had to run when he came in the next morning after having spent the night at a hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
At least 26 women, half of them naval officers, say they were assaulted while forced through a hotel corridor gantlet of drunken, groping pilots. From Wordnik.com. [Running A Gantlet Of Sexual Assault] Reference
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