Word: greeting
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Semper Fit is a gym at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, and Obama has made an effort to mingle with the Marines stationed there. Every morning but Christmas Day Obama has worked out at the facility, pausing afterward to greet the service members and their friends and family who gather near his motorcade to take pictures and shake his hand. On Christmas Eve, Obama greeted the crowd outside the gym with a hearty "Mele Kalikimaka!," Hawaiian for "Merry Christmas...
...Obama spent about an hour with more than 100 Marines in Andersen Hall at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Dressed in a blue shirt and dark slacks, Obama walked among the Marines at a dining facility on the base starting at about 4 p.m. Service members stood to greet Obama, smiled, posed for photographs, and some were able to coax a few autographs out of their incoming Commander in Chief. "I am especially pleased that President-elect Obama has gone out of his way during his family vacation to spend time with our men and women in uniform...
Though the hoopla has died down over the last couple years, the battle is still simmering. As Blumenthal notes, on Dec. 2 a Utah state senator sponsored a resolution encouraging stores to greet shoppers with a hearty "Merry Christmas." And last month, James Dobson's Focus on the Family group published a list of retailers divided into three categories: "Christmas-friendly"; "Christmas-negligent"; and "Christmas-offensive." The war rages...
Zimel was at the house on Saturday to greet Obama and his family as they arrived. "He's very pleasant and very gracious," says Zimel. "I started to call her Mrs. Obama, and she said 'call me Michelle.' A very warm family...
...modest chambers, Roxanna sat in a ray of sunlight, brushing her liquid cornsilk locks. She was only wearing her shift; it seemed foolish to put on more clothes when Frederick would be arriving at any minute.There was a knock at the door, and Roxanna leapt up, ready to greet Frederick with the basket of fresh biscuits she had made for him that morning. “Come in, my love!” she called.It was Felicity.“Oh look,” Frederick’s wife sneered. “A strumpet with crumpets...