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With these plans on the table, Mamdani’s victory provoked the city’s billionaire class and its water carriers to rhetorical paroxysms, including forecasts of economic armageddon for the city.

And yes, in a paroxysm of pettiness, he renamed Mt.

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"The idea that you could have a Christian nationalist position would have just set Jefferson into paroxysms of rage," John said.

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Proving that such paroxysms can descend on anyone at any time and anywhere, the 31-year-old recalls being in Hawaii when it hit her.

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I like to think that’s how everyone reacts when they initially see Delon, whose beauty has long inspired paroxysms of rapture.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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