Word: half-hour
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...Kloppenberg expects to lecture for an hour, and then set aside a half-hour for discussion, a method that he thinks will be most successful in a smaller setting...
...before the Bush inauguration, Quinn pleaded Rich's case in a face-to-face meeting with Clinton. During the entire half-hour chat, Quinn insists, only the legal issues were discussed. Later that day, around 6:30, Quinn informed Holder that the White House was actively considering the pardon and asked if he had any final objections. Holder said he didn't know enough about the case to make a judgment, but added that the federal attorneys in New York, who hadn't been consulted yet, were "going to howl" if it was approved. When approval came, the only condition...
...half-hour speech (delivered without notes) that was by turns funny, sincere, self-deprecating and boosterish, Powell tried to assure the pin-striped set that his military experience would help in an agency whose morale has plunged in recent years. "My background leads me to believe that the commanders in the field are always right," he said, to laughter and applause. Addressing the overseas audience, he added, "You're right, and those of us back here at C Street are generally wrong." He said the staff would be treated like professionals and held to high standards. If you perform...
...where the performers are staying. You can now tell which acts are staying where by whose albums are being clutched by the throngs of fans outside the lobby. R.E.M. and, apparently, Sting, are at my hotel, The Copacabana Palace. Everything is far away from everything else - it's a half-hour ride to the Inter-Continental Hotel to pick up my passes for the concert...
...turn to the Today show, where, on the same morning that James Baker appears, trying his level best to look like a principled human being, a Latvian chef will also teach us how to stuff a banana with rabbit, and someone will announce that in the next half-hour we'll talk about a new cure for Parkinson's disease..."plus, live from the plaza--Jewel!" That's history for you. That's Bruegel's Icarus, as Auden pointed out in his poem on the painting; sensational events mingle with the run-of-the-mill till you cannot discern...