Word: grope
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...From there on out, it was a group grope,” he said. “My task as the project director was to try to cull from these discussions areas of agreement and to build the document around these areas of agreement and to try to discern what would represent a centrist, bipartisan position...
...grope his way out of the wilderness, O'Neill turned to his old friends from the Ford Administration, Alan Greenspan and Dick Cheney. According to the book, Greenspan agreed with many of his proposals but could not do much from his Delphian perch. When O'Neill sought guidance from the Vice President about how to install a system that would foster vigorous and transparent debate, he got grumbles and silence but little sympathy. Soon O'Neill concluded that his powerful old colleague was rowing in a different direction."I realized why Dick just nodded along when I said...
...could buy T shirts reading WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT? with the date, confirming New York's position as the capital of capitalism. Meanwhile, half a world away, the few residents of Baghdad who had electricity sat stuck to their TV sets, watching the superpower grope in the dark. "We stayed up for an hour watching it," said a taxi driver, "until the electricity shut down." --Reported by Amanda Bower, Sean Gregory and Jyoti Thottam/New York; Laura Eggertson/Ottawa; Steven Frank/Toronto; Elisabeth Kauffman/Nashville; Eric Roston, Douglas Waller and Mark Thompson/Washington; Fran Stewart/Cleveland; and Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas
Glistening, toned coeds grope each other shamelessly in full view, trendy clothing barely clinging to their effortlessly beautiful figures. Sweaty muscled men frolic, daring passers-by to glance. No, it’s not a performance of Eleganza, but rather the ubiquitous Abercrombie store window, displaying the clothes you have, and the body you wish...
...that even without one of your hands you can still do cool things like go clubbing and see foreign films. Unfortunately, you wouldn’t be able to clap at the end of Amélie, even if you really enjoyed it. And it would be hard to grope someone on the dance floor and hold your amaretto sour at the same time. There are trade-offs with everything I suppose. Personally, I don’t really want to live on a farm either, but I imagine that if Sandel’s question had been...