Word: forth
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...back-and-forth over breakfast was probably the day's most reasonable conversation. Minutes later the candidate was on "Good Morning America" and Diane Sawyer was asking him about the ad. The Pack was off. Among the stories being ignored that day was what the campaign is actually planning to do, which is go strongly negative. But the rest of the day Bush and his aides were ducking rat questions...
Taking the platform in Los Angeles last week, Hillary Clinton showed she has mastered the ballet of politics. She extended her arms like Evita to take in the cheers of the crowd, sweeping back and forth across the stage, the mistress of all she surveyed, breaking stride only for the hackneyed wave and point--with astonished delight, as if she'd just spotted a bunkmate from sleep-away camp. But once the supportive circle of six women Senators left the podium and the applause subsided, Hillary simply couldn't make music. To her the Staples Center was the world...
...invented scat; that's merely creativity. What Louis wrought was a revolution. Before Armstrong, popular singers inhaled deeply, puffed out their chests and projected. After him, most have tried to do what he did so magnificently: find elation or sadness or humor in the song and let it issue forth as a purely human statement. Dizzy Gillespie, speaking of Armstrong's role in the development of jazz trumpet, said, "No him, no me." They're words that could be spoken just as appropriately by singers as disparate as Tony Bennett and Mick Jagger...
...Further prosecution is not likely to result in a prosecutable case under applicable criminal law and standards for prosecution... I've concluded that there is no reasonable possibility that further investigation would produce evidence to warrant charges." And so forth. She even called Robert Conrad, the grumbly aide whose leak reignited this mess in July, "an excellent prosecutor" - twice...
...Editor's note: Like reading other people's e-mails? Here's your chance to read the contents of those electronic missives flying back and forth between the real Lance Morrow and the victims of his fake alter ego. Names and certain details have been deleted or changed to protect the participants...