Word: pompom
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Anybody who saw Amy Poehler on Saturday Night Live shaking her ripe baby belly at Sarah Palin as if it were a huge fleshy pompom had to be impressed. She's rapping! And dancing! On national TV! In front of a possible future veep! A week before she delivers! Pregnant women can do anything...
...back on his feet, chest-bouncing the football toward his fellow players, his teammates rewarded him with loud "well done" cheers, as if he had come off with an unexpected triumph. "He plays well. But in summer," sniped 59-year-old Antonin Votruba, shaking his woolen pompom-topped red-white club hat. His buddies nodded knowingly. No. 10 himself misses the warm weather...
...ears were freezing. I wouldn't wear the multicolored cap with the pompom and jingle bells that my mother had made me one Christmas. I had shoved it in the pocket of my parka instead...
...strange way to teach, but then this is a strange school. Imagine a place where children learn math by holding jobs, paying taxes and owning * businesses that sell everything from pompom pencils to potpourri pillows. A place where students study logic and law by taking their peers to court and fining them in the school's own currency. A place where kids come to understand politics by drawing up their own constitution, drafting laws and deciding which days of the week baseball caps may be worn to class. Imagine, in short, a school where civics is not just a course...
...really thought what we were writing was true," said Helen Davis, a Dartmouth co-ed who filled in as cheerleader when her best friend's pompom broke. "We gave up hope for the game weeks ago, and knew we'd have to cheat to have any chance of snapping our normally interminable losing streak," she added...