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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
napalm .
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Examples
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The countryside is stunning and I can only imagine what it looked like before America napalmed most of it.
Matt Kepnes: Why I'll Never Return To Vietnam Matt Kepnes 2012
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We are told, in a reminiscence of his days as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, that "in May 1969, students threw rocks and bottles at police trying to shut down a party on Mifflin Street," but there is nothing of napalmed Vietnamese or U.S. troops in body bags.
Robert Scheer: Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions Robert Scheer 2011
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A network official was quoted saying at the time: "He didn't burn the bridges here, he napalmed them."
Olbermann's split with MSNBC may have been long in the making Paul Farhi 2011
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As Mary Matalin said recently, she has napalmed bridges ( "never burn your bridges") and viciously attacked anyone opposed to her or her extremem ideas.
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We are told, in a reminiscence of his days as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, that "in May 1969, students threw rocks and bottles at police trying to shut down a party on Mifflin Street," but there is nothing of napalmed Vietnamese or U.S. troops in body bags.
Robert Scheer: Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions Robert Scheer 2011
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A network official was quoted saying at the time: "He didn't burn the bridges here, he napalmed them."
Olbermann's split with MSNBC may have been long in the making Paul Farhi 2011
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Did we care about t? he feelings of Japanese when we napalmed Tokyo?
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As far back as the 1960s, survivors of the USS Liberty - the US Navy technical research ship that some say was deliberately bombed, napalmed and shot at by Israeli fighters as it sat in international waters on June 8, 1967 - were systematically accused of anti-Semitism when they gave their accounts of the events that day.
Being Anti-Israel and Anti-Zionist Is the "New Anti-Semitism" 2010
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Bipartisanship sauce is Washington's most treasured commodity -- the press will allow entire life-giving forests of public policy to be napalmed into ash in pursuit of this Unobtanium.
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As far back as the 1960s, survivors of the USS Liberty - the US Navy technical research ship that some say was deliberately bombed, napalmed and shot at by Israeli fighters as it sat in international waters on June 8, 1967 - were systematically accused of anti-Semitism when they gave their accounts of the events that day.
Sharmine Narwani: Being Anti-Israel and Anti-Zionist Is the "New Anti-Semitism" 2010
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