Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...suspect that's how most Americans regarded the situation in Florida. As a carnival sideshow to their lives. Interesting, yes; amusing, sometimes; but mostly irrelevant...
Compared with the lawyers' arguments about itty-bitty paper dots and the pleadings of grandmothers in tracksuits for a revote, the news coming out of tiny Seminole County has seemed like a strange little sideshow, barely worth noticing. But now both candidates are realizing that the sideshow could potentially decide the election. A lawsuit--filed not by Al Gore but by an Altamonte Springs personal-injury lawyer--demands that the county throw out some 15,000 absentee ballots because of alleged fraud. That would give Gore a net gain of about 5,000 votes, more than enough...
...This drove home to him the seriousness, the stakes of this business that we're in. It changed him inside. Afterward, he was more steady, rooted, surefooted in his understanding of where the American people are. Yes, he made personal mistakes, but those in some way have been a sideshow to the main current of his public leadership, and the approval ratings show that...
...notorious terrorists, who are occasionally portrayed by Greek media as latter-day Robin Hood ideologues, battling Western overlords and NATO in pursuit of Greek interests, and in defense of Greece's onetime close allies the Serbs. When NATO launched its 1999 bombing blitz of Yugoslavia, 17 November, plus a sideshow of some 80 extremist groups, retaliated in Greece with a spate of bomb and rocket attacks that led the U.S. State Department to rank Greece, a NATO ally, second only to Colombia in worldwide stings against U.S. interests last year. A congressionally mandated commission followed, recommending that the U.S. consider...
...Sideshow...