Sponge , to throw up the SPONGE, to submit, to give over the struggle,from the practice of throwing up the SPONGE used to cleanse a combatants face at a prize-fight, as a signal that the side on which that particular SPONGE has been used has had enoughthat the SPONGE is no longer required
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(Kurtz will be happy to know that Obama does acknowledge reading Marx and Marcuse so I had something to say to the long-legged socialist who lived in my dorm.) Obama also alleges, misleadingly, that Republican resistance hardened, independent of anything we said or did, neglecting to remember that shortly after his inauguration, he told Republican Whip Eric Cantor that Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. Republicans resisted Obama, to be sure, but it is less clear that the resistance took place in the abstract, independent of anything we said or did. On at least one occasion, Obama even skips over the whole story to the detriment of a putative ally, National Economic Adviser Larry Summers, who, he claims, had a public row with the prominent African American studies professor Cornel West. It is true that they had a row, but Obama fails to note that the source of the disagreement was that Summers suggested that West produce scholarship rather than rap CDs

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The $15 billion e-cigarette industry compounds the problem by continuing to bring these products to market without appropriate warnings that would apprise unwitting consumers of the potential explosion hazard