Word: slot
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...best a little bit fun to listen to. I worked it. Then on the next interview, I handed them a sound bite. I essentially trained myself in sound bites. They can't edit it; they don't need to edit it. It's self-contained. You just slot it right in. It fits in, and it makes you smile. And so, when that started, they kept coming back. And they never stopped...
...took place at a separate ceremony in the Senate chambers, after which the Senate chaplain usually offered a prayer. Roosevelt decided to merge the two events and brought the chaplain along to participate as well. But in a shrewd political maneuver, Roosevelt also opened up a second religious slot on the program for Father John Ryan, an influential figure in Catholic social teaching and a prominent supporter of the New Deal. As Mark Silk, professor of religion at Trinity College, has written, Ryan was not only known as "the Right Rev. New Dealer," but he was also the most effective...
...from their game.”Fraser scored his third and fourth goals of the season and provided the only offensive spark for Harvard all night. His first goal put the Crimson on the scoreboard at 4:52 in the second period when Fraser fired a shot from the slot that beat Blasé on the left side inside the post.The co-captain’s rush up the ice at the end of the third period resulted in a wrist shot that sailed past Blasé top shelf at 19:10 to add a measure of respectability...
...Long before Fox News, TV was a medium of talk. Actress Dody Goodman, 93, played Louise Lasser's mother on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, but was better known as dizzy racontress on Jack Paar's late-night couch. Les Crane, 74, filled ABC's 11:30 slot against Johnny Carson with an issues show, contentiously thrusting his boom mike into the audience. Four decades later, the folksier Tony Snow, 53, hosted a Fox show as an out-of-town tryout for his job as White House Press Secretary. Jack Narz, 85, hosted the "fixed" game show Dotto; got rehabilitated...
Inside Harrah's Casino, one of New Orleans' main tourist attractions, men and women are pounding away at slot machines, puffing on cigarettes and freely ordering cocktails, seemingly oblivious to the economic crisis sweeping much of the country. Maybe it's all an escape. "Oh, I don't spend that much," says Linda Buggee, 60, while walking through the casino's front doors on a recent balmy afternoon. The Palm Beach County, Fla., paralegal was eager to add to the thousand of dollars she's won in recent days. "I've been lucky," she says...