Word: clapped
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...swimming pools, tennis courts and a nearby golf course. Weekends bring barbecues or softball games. And in the evenings, residents watch satellite TV, the latest episode of Friends sometimes interrupted by the faint chatter of machine-gun fire?a sound that causes unease, but only a little, like a clap of thunder from a faraway rainstorm...
...bunch of lucky calls and bonuses here and there," Welch said of the business world. "This is not rocket science. You have to motivate, meet and clap...
...explained the HBS experience succinctly: "The situation [at HBS] can boiled down to three activities: we meet, we talk, and we clap," Senor said...
...think you just have to go through life and make yourself happy, and if other people want to clap for you along the way, that’s great...
...recent Friday night, a glassy-eyed senior citizen treats the club to a warb-ling, sick-dog rendition of John Lennon's Imagine. Beside him a young blond girl wearing a ruffly white dress she might have worn to her prom smiles happily, her hands poised, ready to clap when her elderly companion finishes his song. At another table a man dressed in a white V-neck sweater and cream-colored golf pants is flanked by two big-boned Nordic women. In halting English, he regales them with tales of how much his hotel accommodations cost on a recent trip...