Word: doormat
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...there and get your butt kicked by Hannity,” the Smigel-voiced puppet barked. “Thank God they just let the doormat through the door...
...that fateful basketball game, there was guard Edwin Draughan, whose 21 points and six assists valiantly tried to suppress the reprisal from this year’s unequivocal Ivy doormat, and almost did in the final seconds...
It’s a dead-end job with a program that has become a conference doormat...
...tries to get Minnie to join him. After teasing him along for a few months she finally arrives, but moves out within days because she decides she doesn't love him. The remainder of the book is a detailed portrait of a hopeless emotional dynamic between a needy doormat, a manipulative neurotic and the various ancillary lovers that get involved with them. "David Chelsea in Love" reads like a comical horror show, compelling you to keep turning pages while sucking wind through your teeth at each new development. Even if the story gets a little exasperating (Dump her already...
...convicted on corruption charges and banned from holding office for 10 years. He told an audience of 13 million that he intended to appeal and would not honor his earlier pledge to quit politics if he lost the case. "One doesn't slide the key under the doormat and abruptly leave people who say they need you," Juppé explained. Who needs Juppé? Chirac, for one. The 71-year-old President has no other credible successor - and if Juppé leaves the scene, it could clear the way for a man Chirac is said to loathe and perhaps fear...