Word: meet
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...20pm: We meet friends of our host at a second cafe and discuss options for the evening. We're told that cafe and nightlife culture are defining characteristics of the city. Another characteristic I've noted? Extremely stylish restrooms...
...41pm: We walk to the waterfront, where the Danube and Sava rivers converge, to meet friends at Cantina de Frida, the former home of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, located on a long strip of trendy lounges...
When the manager arrives, Gault asks her to at least meet her halfway. But the manager does one better and gladly agrees to match the Web price...
...YORK, N.Y. — Every time I meet B, a rising high school senior in my writing class at Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side, he makes me laugh. He delivers his jokes with a screwball exuberance that puts him in the tradition of zany black comics Chris Tucker, Chris Rock, and Dave Chappelle. At first, I couldn't return the warmth, and glanced at him awkwardly as he offered his hand for—I didn't know what. Perhaps I felt more at home thinking about sentence structures than pounding and slapping hands with street...
...wrong. Yes, hand etiquette changes every few years, and there are some conventions. But what the greetings are really about is the attention that two friends pay to one another. The idea is to follow your friend's hand carefully as you approach it, making sure that you meet in the same way—shake, snap, slap, or pound. I learned from B that hand manners are like jazz. They are not about exclusion—they are about sympathetic improvisation...