Word: pompfully
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...Even as we took our stances in standing room, the ceremony began. There was to be a solid hour of pomp and circumstance before the first pitch, the twin centerpieces being the awarding of World Series rings and the hoisting of the World Champs banner. In short centerfield several musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops were arrayed, and to kick things off they played some Fens faves like "Sweet Caroline." Then the rings were bore in from left field by wounded members of the military-real heroes, not the baseball kind. Later, after receiving his ring...
...favor of her son Grand Duke Jean, the present head of state; at Fischbach Castle near Luxembourg City. Chosen in a special post-World War I plebiscite to replace her German-leaning older sister, she tended to her largely ceremonial duties with intelligence, charm and a lack of pomp. During World War II, her radio broadcasts from exile in Great Britain did much to build morale. Afterward, she helped guide her tiny principality (998 sq. mi., pop. 365,000), wedged between West Germany, France and Belgium, to high living standards, enlightened social policies and founding membership in the European Community...
...London's Daily Mail marked the occasion by proclaiming, "The loudly checked leisure suit and dime-store cigar make a welcome return to the city." Ten thousand American lawyers, and nearly as many spouses, children and friends, were on the town in London, assembled in tax-deductible (maybe) pomp and plenitude for the 107th meeting of the American Bar Association...
...although the year did not end with the same pomp and circumstance as 2004, there is much to take away from...
...bear equal responsibility for the frayed relations he was now trying to mend signaled to Europeans that the "Cowboy in Chief" might be ready to holster his guns. Certainly that was the message Bush spent the week trying to send. Usually he rushes through the diplomatic sessions and endless pomp of foreign visits. He is a man of action. He doesn't trust a lot of talk. That's one of the reasons he gets irritated by French President Jacques Chirac. (Administration aides like to joke that at state dinners, the French President can't stop lecturing long enough...