Word: digging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...audience was pleased with the election results and took the opportunity to dig into Canada's right-wing minority. The ruling Liberal Party swept Quebec and Ontario to win a third consecutive term, the first third term in more than 50 years...
...then, having just come out of a lunch with Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, Gore got in a quick comparative dig at his loudly transitioning opponent. Asked if he offered Summers a carryover job in a Gore administration, the veep demurred. "I personally do not feel it is appropriate to announce the names of Cabinet members or to formally offer positions," he said...
...encourage you to dig out your syllabus and e-mail that professor you've always wanted to talk to. You'll be surprised at what a little effort can do. The only thing you've got to lose--your fear--is something you'll be better off without...
...nothing made Gore and his allies dig in as much as the roving "rent-a-rioters," some of them Bush campaign operatives, who were controlled by radio from a mobile home. "If that occurred in another country," said Massachusetts senator John Kerry, "people would be taking the floor of the Senate and bemoaning thuggism." Klain called it a "crystallizing moment: the idea that the Republicans, having been rejected by the courts in their efforts to shut down the hand counts, would resort to these sorts of tactics to stop the counting of ballots. It made it really clear...
...Sandler is one of the funniest guys I ever worked with at "Saturday Night Live." Very underrated in his writing ability. You have to dig into the archives or pull out the best of tape of Chris Farley, and you see things that Adam wrote that were very inventive. He did a lot of funny stuff that played with the form of presentational sketch comedy that no one had done before. He dared the staff to like him. He was one of the first people who kind of stepped outside of conventional sketch comedy and commented...