Word: parlor
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...down, of course, it would throw Bush even further off kilter. Governing without Cheney at his side is a prospect neither he nor his aides want to entertain. Those staff members willing to consider the idea simply call Cheney irreplaceable and leave it at that. Even so, the favorite parlor game among Republicans outside the White House last week--even among Bush friends--was speculation on who might replace Cheney if he were to step down. Colin Powell was the consensus choice, although the Secretary of State passed up Bush's offer last summer. Other names included the various Senators...
...interview with The Crimson, conducted in a dimly-lit parlor off the main hall of Loeb House, Summers was relaxed, joking about his press conference performance...
...Brown decision. Coming, the other day on Fox Television, from Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the only ex-Klansman who plays the fiddle and reads Plutarch both, it seemed a period piece brought down from the attic, to the surprise and confusion of those gathered in the parlor - an item of yesteryear's genteel insincerity with the mildew of viciousness still...
...trucks and lots of white people. (According to the 2000 census, fewer than 10,000 of the city's 58,342 residents are not white.) A ranching area turned bedroom community through modest white flight, Santee is a conservative haven where the sight of an old-time ice cream parlor is welcome but certain other sights are not. Overt racism, luckily, has gone out of style, but other types of intolerance have...
When President Bush (a.k.a. Bushie; Dubya) surveyed the sea of reporters at a press conference last week and asked, "Where's Stretch?" it revived interest in D.C.'s hottest parlor game: Guess the Nickname. "Stretch" is an easy one, if not especially original--it can apply to either David Gregory of NBC News or, as at the press confab, Richard Keil of Bloomberg. Both are about 6 ft. 6 in. Other nicknames are being overheard at photo ops, D.C. dinners and Cabinet meetings. While Bush's method appears scattershot, we have--eureka!--discerned a pattern to the moniker madness...