Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...drunk couple upchucked several liters of bodily fluids between them and then, with their equilibrium partially restored, proceeded to swap much of what remained in an impromptu two hour romp within the potty’s narrow confines. The entire tryst was accompanied by the uproarious cheers of the gentleman in the adjacent potty, who only interrupted his chorus of “booyas” and “fuck-yeahs” for an occasional grunting crap-heave...
...member Iraqi Governing Council bickering to a standstill, the idea of a dominant Karzai-like leader in Baghdad is gaining widespread appeal. In an interview last week with a San Diego television station, Secretary of State Colin Powell seemed almost wistful: "We don't yet see somebody like the gentleman who took over in Afghanistan." In Iraq, such a gentleman might be hard to find...
Some Afghans believe Karzai is too much a gentleman, failing to curb the excesses of the warlords within his own Cabinet. Like the Iraqis, Afghans are accustomed to strong men. --By Michele Orecklin. Reported by Tim McGirk/Islamabad
...China has often seemed a land of dashed dreams for foreign companies eager to sell to 1.3 billion mainland consumers. But for KFC, this frontier has proved unexpectedly bountiful. Colonel Sanders, the goateed (and quite dead) Southern gentleman who is KFC's founder and marketing icon, rules the country's fast-food roost. Since opening its first mainland outlet in Beijing in 1987, the fried-chicken chain has gone on to become the most recognized global brand among urban consumers in China, according to an ACNielsen survey in 1999. KFC says more than 2 million Chinese eat at its stores...
...spot on the local puli lovers’ club board of directors left her little time to contemplate the empty nest I had left. Then there was my father’s decision to drive to the Bronx and rescue what he described as a “Danish gentleman from the turn of the century,” a white-chested, overweight dog they named Blix. Scuppers, the oldest of the pack, even has weekly appointments with his chiropractor...