Word: build-up
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...presents for everyone and then distribute them all in one frantic night of frenzied, orgiastic gift-giving. It inevitably took a team of psychiatrists several months to rebuild the monomaniacal old man's psyche, and Santa inevitably spent the rest of the year following his recovery doing a slow build-up to that December night when he would once again rush his reindeer through the skies like some off-course Finnish astronaut on methedrine...
There is really nothing like it. The two-month build-up, the great expectations, the 48 hours of non-stop action. When it's over, the letdown is tremendous, but that's to be expected. This is Yale weekend. This is THE WEEKEND...
Even then, you can rest assured that there was really nothing like it. The two-month build-up, the great expectations, the 48 hours of non-stop action. When it was over, the letdown was tremendous, but that was to be expected. It was Yale weekend. It was, and still is, THE WEEKEND...
...abroad and support for any and all regimes that will safeguard America's sphere of influence and the business interests of U.S. firms. During this time, furthermore, the Pentagon has learned to use words like "strategic interests" in a vague and menacing way to justify the continued presence and build-up of U.S. weapons and military personnel in countries under blatantly corrupt and repressive leadership...
...SOVIET ARMS BUILDUP. I suspect that bureaucratic, historical and service drives exist there too. It may be that those drives are creating this [build-up]. I think we should in every case look for possibilities for improving our own security by arms limitation discussions and agreements. But I think it would be a mistake for us to say that is all we should do. We and our NATO allies should pull up our socks and see whether by more efficient approaches, we can increase our own conventional strength...