Word: gathering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...truths are self-evident, but we still try to keep up appearances. It's bad for business to admit you are a pinhead, even if the polls clearly show that the American people have not been fooled. So each year, nearly three thousand Beltway tribe members and their guests gather at the Washington Hilton, the place where Ronald Reagan got shot, to dine with the current President of the United States and pretend for a night that we actually belong to a cool crowd, a hip scene, an exclusive network of movers and shakers that everyone wants to join...
Maybe the cringe factor would have been less had Obama not been speaking in San Francisco, a regional headquarters for secular condescension, or at a private fund raiser, where the rich and powerful gather for shrimp and special access; or if Obama, a comfortably devout Christian, had not said that "bitter" small-town voters "cling" to their faith, along with their guns and their "antipathy to people who aren't like them." By any measure, it was a graceless move to characterize an entire demographic group--and vital voting bloc--as irrational and bigoted. And it came from a candidate...
...really was going to sell my chain, I didn't want to do it at some seedy pawnshop or through an infomercial company. It turns out a lot of people feel the same way. Gold parties, at which friends gather over drinks after raiding their senile mom's drawers for heirlooms to melt down, have become this recession's dance marathons. I called January Thomas, who just quit her sales job in Michigan to run her new company, My Gold Party mygoldparty.com) She sent me a $700 kit with a jeweler's loupe, a scale and a machine that tests...
...really want heart, go find a member of the Red Sox Nation. We all know who had Babe Ruth first. We all know who had Rodger Clemens first. And we all know that even in the face of a thousand year curse, if enough fanatically dedicated sportfans gather together and cheer loud and long enough, we can overcome pretty much anything...
...every night back home we’d gather round the TV and shout out answers,” he said...