Word: gloats
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Every network has new shows to announce, but each takes a different story into the upfronts. ABC, having shot into contention for the top of the ratings with "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives," will be in full-on gloat mode. NBC, which went from first to fourth place in one year among the crucial 18-to-49-year-old viewer group, will be in full-on crisis-management mode (to the delight of rivals who have suffered several years of NBC gloating under the self-congratulatory slogan "The Quality Shows" - until they lost "Friends" and gained "Joey" and became "The Desperation...
...itself might have been enough to permit the Bush team to issue a whispered "I told you so" to critics who thought the Presi-dent's optimism was naive. But that was not what the Administration was doing--and that too was a promising sign. The "don't gloat" mantra of Bush's father during the heady days of 1989 was back in vogue at the White House. In public, Bush allowed himself only this much satisfaction at a stop in New Jersey: "We're living in amazing times...
Mere hours after the election began, I found myself sitting in my Warren Court section listening to classmates gloat over early exit polls that incorrectly showed Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., opening a sizeable early lead in key swing states. The conversation, dominated by a sect I have reason to believe are politically active Democrats, slowly shifted towards who had voted, at which point our TF, very matter of factly inquired as to whether anyone in the class had actually voted for President George W. Bush, which of course...
...face up to the fact that one man will lose and limp away to join the ranks of noble losers (Eugene V. Debs, Barry Goldwater, George McGovern) while the other one grins and waves and elementary schools are named after him. So what happens next? The winners smirk and gloat, of course, but what do the losers...
Rather, the chant means, “We hate the Yankees because they’ve won 26 World Series, they spend millions more than any other team, and their fans gloat over the team’s success with such irritating glee...