Word: busful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Close to the end of John McCain's most recent swing through New Hampshire this week, reporters and the candidate took their usual places at the back of the "Straight Talk Express." McCain was doing phone interviews, voice raised a bit over the roar of the bus. It took us a while to realize we were not moving. "We're off schedule," explained an aide. McCain did a sort of fake lunge toward his staffer - a full body, sarcastic version of "why-I-oughta" - before she continued, "We're ahead of schedule." McCain, whose exaggerated gestures sometimes suggest...
ROBERTS I just want to sign up for that eight hours of sleep. Where do I get on that bus...
Bell is experimenting with becoming a national brand. He has just ended his second national bus tour in two years. Backstage recently in Manhattan, he acknowledged that the exertions aimed at "large crowds and good book sales can be at odds with" the creativity he associates with "the Eucharist, the breaking yourself open and pouring yourself out." Fans hope that as with the Nooma he can find a way to reconcile two seemingly disparate story lines...
...ultimate steak, you usually have to go farther than the local hypermarket. My own high-steaks investigation has taken me down some pretty twisted cattle trails. I've spent days on a bus pilgrimage of barbecue joints in Texas and a fortune on wagyu in Japan. I've eaten raw Arctic musk ox with my bare hands at Copenhagen's cutting-edge Nordic restaurant Noma, and I even took my husband to a strip club after I was tipped off that the best meat in Manhattan was to be had at Robert's Steakhouse in the Penthouse Gentlemen's Club...
...Abbas' high-walled headquarters - good P.R. for the President, as intended. There was no denying the open joy and gratitude that the families of the freed prisoners expressed toward Abbas. Spilling out of the buses, the ex-detainees were mobbed and kissed by relatives. Some tumbled out of the bus windows, straight into arms of tearful mothers. The official Israeli statement made clear who was meant to benefit from the move as well. "Today's release of Palestinian prisoners is aimed at reinforcing moderate Palestinian leaders and at favoring political dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians," Israeli government spokesman Mark...