Word: flatness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This was supposed to be a joke, in reference to Bush's retort to Gore during the debate to "forget the journalists" and what they say about his facts and figures. But the joke fell flat, so Bush pressed on. "For all journalists on board, please raise your hand," he said. "For those of you missing, will you please raise your hands." Again, his timing off, he was met with a puzzled silence. "At any rate," Bush continued, "[there is] less than three weeks to go. I'm looking forward to it. I hope you are, too. May your stories...
...governor's attempt at humor fell flat, that didn't deter Karen Hughes, Bush's chief spokesman. She came back during the flight to Wisconsin and offered a sample of the jokes Bush might deliver during his appearance on "Late Night With David Letterman" Thursday in New York. For Bush's "Top 10 Reasons Why I Won the Debate," Karen had a handful of ideas: "Number 10: The mikes were off. Number 9: There are laws against stalking. Number 8: I finally figured out the difference between East Timorians and West Texians. And Number 1: Strategery." That's right: "strategery...
...Ronnie had a weird natural vibrato - almost a tremolo, really - that modulated her little-girl timbre into something that penetrated the Wall of Sound like a nail gun. It is an uncanny instrument. Sitting on a ragged couch in my railroad flat, I could hear her through all the arguments on the street, the car alarms, the sirens. She floated above the sound of New York while also being a part of it - a Bronx-born Latina stomping her foot on the sidewalk and insisting on being heard...
...Basically I got an open ball, then it was just me and Philomena," McDavitt said. "I tried to pass it flat and it hit the girl's leg, but I just got it off her leg and hit it past the goalie...
...also proposed streamlining Medicare, increasing military readiness, paying off the national debt by 2012, and adopting a flat, across-the-board capital gains...