Word: greet
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...hate penguins. I used to pride myself on being an animal lover. I used to greet my conservative friends with diatribes against arctic oil drilling. I used to laud the proud Alaskan moose and the Pacific seal at City Hall every Earth Day. But no more. Damn penguins. Two hours of penguins mating and dying is enough to make you eat veal, stop cutting the rings on your soda can packaging, and dump oil into the Caspian sea. I’m an unwilling convert, but perhaps with a cheap handle of rum and a bottle of Coke...
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Common Casting," reads a chalked sign in the Loeb Ex’s black box theatre, a surreal room transformed by candy, a functioning green swing, and drum beat soundtrack. Returning actors greet one another with full body hugs, while nervous novices and first-years fret over potentially awkward interaction with strangers, especially when directed to act "sexual, but not explicit...
...president, who may be most familiar to undergraduates as a Diet Coke-clutching visitor at dorm study breaks, still plans to greet students at Dunster House tonight at 9 p.m., according to his spokesman John D. Longbrake...
...have nicknames for each other, so often my work is done for me. And I also become an anti-nicknamer, with a tendency to call boys by their full first names rather than the shortened form they go by. In deference to the teacher of this skill, I rarely greet my father with any normal form of “Dad.” Instead it’s “Papa Bear” or “Mr. Man.”Even with all this training, I sometimes wonder why it’s impossible...
...from any Vice President's since the Truman years. When Bush recruited him as his running mate in 2000, Cheney made his priorities clear: he would do the inside work and leave the outside work to others. The campaign team described a parade in which Cheney would meet and greet voters. "Um," said a Cheney staff member tentatively, "Mr. Cheney does not like to shake hands." That was actually always part of his appeal: between his age, his four heart attacks and his aura of grouchiness, Cheney was the first Veep in generations to hold the Heartbeat Away portfolio without...