Girding

As China tensions simmer across the Pacific, America’s Western Pacific redoubt of Guam is girding for a knockout hit by Super Typhoon Mawar.

He was girding, an amoral storyteller insisting on a story and a moral different from the ones that those nefarious establishment types were pushing.

Now, we have Kamala the Brave girding her loins, joining forth to do battle with The Evil One.

Now I’m being deliberately naughty in using that phrase because today — as befits a society of two ‘never-the-twain-shall-meet’ camps — any mention of saving the planet immediately leads to loin girding amongst those battle groups.

Johnson famously missed out on becoming prime minister in 2016, but a neat trim in January was taken as the first sign he was girding up for another run at the top office as Theresa May’s government wobbled.

The president and the Democrats may be girding for a constitutional clash, but their campaigns are working to capitalize on the moment with fund-raising appeals.

But most of the better tables today are taken up by a colorful crowd of shave-headed, black-T-shirt-clad, brightly enhanced out-of-towners, girding their loins for day two of Hell City with bacon and eggs and lots of hot coffee.

Perhaps girding for an organizing battle, the company — breaking its usual silence — rebutted similar assertions about warehouse working conditions when they were voiced by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., last week.

Burns (1956), p. 261. Congress passed, and the president signed, a mandatory arms embargo at a time when dictators in Europe and Asia were girding for world war.