Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sitting in our aisle. One wears a slam T shirt, and we assume they're poets. But they're not. It turns out they read about the competition in the New York Times and flew from San Jose to check it out. "Hey, you're the L.A. team," they greet us as we move to our seats. "You were great last night!" And you know, we were...
...word for "meal for the humble?" "Well," he said, "here's one that's appropriate for today." (Answer: crow.) When the plane touched down, the crowds were waiting, eager and therapeutic, waving handmade signs that called WELCOME BACK and MV LOVES BILL. At the bottom of the steps to greet him with a bear hug when Air Force One touched down in Edgartown, Mass., was Vernon Jordan...
Monday Bill Clinton visits Boris Yeltsin, one guy who can make all that nasty Monica business seem like very small pirozhki, for a quick two-day meet-and-greet. The benefits are almost all one-way: Yeltsin is in very deep trouble, and there?s nothing Clinton can do for him. But for Clinton, more airtime with Boris means less airtime for the special prosecutor...
...only certainty under Chernomyrdin's coalition is that things will get worse before they get better. But after surviving seven grueling decades of communism and a Nazi invasion that killed 20 million people in only four years, it's not surprising that Russians greet news of financial collapse in Moscow not with panic, but with a resigned shrug...
Still, he can't seem to fight his twitch for getting ugly. As he stepped into the convention center to greet local Baptist ministers, he unleashed. "I don't know how African Americans can vote for Engler," he says. "That's like Jews voting for Adolf Hitler...