Word: clappings
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...games though, the team is less demonstrative. Hoover says they smile and clap, but don't usually say anything to the cheerleaders. Coutu suspects it is because "they are all wrapped up in the game." But their oblivion doesn't distress her. She knows that the team is inwardly grateful. "the general reaction is like, 'wow, they really care about...
BOSWELL'S CLAP AND OTHER ESSAYS by William B. Ober...
James Boswell, whose recurrent gonorrhea gives this book its captivating title was a glutton for debilitating pleasures. The biographer of Samuel Johnson swilled and swived his way through 18th century London and suffered, by Dr Ober's documented count, 19 acute attacks of urethritis. Just how the clap affected his writing is not readily apparent. More comprehensible are the roots of Boswell's reckless social life, specifically his Scots Calvinist origin with its severe strictures against wine and wenching. For Boswell, the embodiment of this authority was his father, the eighth Lord Auchinleck, a straitlaced, unaffectionate parent...
...Claimed House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "It was the most attentive audience that I have seen in my years in Congress." This was a polite and partisan way of glossing over the fact that no applause greeted Carter's statements on the treaty itself. The audience did clap six times, but only when Carter condemned war and Soviet expansionism and exhorted Congress to keep U.S. defenses strong. In fact, there was no evidence that Carter's speech swayed any votes in the Senate...
...group happens to be Ultravox, go directly to the Paradise on March 2 or 3. Ultravox has a fascinating sound. "We're more interested in noise than any specific form of music," a spokesman for the group has said. Apparently, noise "prompts" the audience to show "emotion" and then "clap" their "hands...