Word: fobbing
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...Casually mention any connections (however tenuous) that you might have to the new First Family-elect. You don't have to be a Friend Of Bill (FOB), you can be a Friend of a Friend Of Bill (FFOB...
...fundamental misunderstanding of what superpower status means. It means acting to protect allies even when they are too weak or too cowed to do so on their own. In most foreign policy crises, such is the case. The only country in a position to act is the U.S. To fob off the responsibility on allies, who we know in advance are in no position to act, is to declare, in the most pious multilateral tones, an American retreat...
...highest form of multilateral nonsense, however, is to pretend to fob off the responsibility on the U.N., as Senator Pell proposes. And Pell is not alone. Presidential Candidate Michael Dukakis spoke for much of the Democratic Party when he expressed opposition to American use of "armed forces in the gulf unless it does so in concert with other nations, preferably under the aegis of the U.N. Security Council...
...site of O. Henry's home, half a block from Pete's, insists that he composed the story in "two feverish hours" sitting in his wide front window-writing of the wife who sells her beautiful hair at Christmastime in order to buy a watch fob for her husband, who sells his watch in order to buy her a pair of combs...
...other than that they chose Gramercy Park to li live in, choosing one another's company as much as the old trees and pretty houses. Like most people, they behave better than people are generally reputed to behave, proclaiming their value, as O. Henry said of the watch fob in The Gift of the Magi, "by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation...