Word: sop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...television showed the younger Kim seated at a dais with other dignitaries as a military band played a patriotic song. "The revolutionary cause pioneered by President Kim Il Sung is now being successfully carried forward under the wise guidance of the great leader, Comrade Kim Jong Il," Yang Hyong Sop, North Korea's parliament speaker, said during the service. The uncharismatic and inarticulate Kim Jong Il's role had been unclear since the demise of his forceful father -- the only leader North Korea had ever known...
...will claim small successes over along period of time, to give our movement momentum and sustained zeal. Things might not happen right away, but maybe when you're far off in your welldeserved retirement, your successors will get tired of us and throw us a sop. That would be nice. Did we mention that we're going to poster at Commencement, too? Maybe we can get balloons with House shields on them and scare Vaclev Havel away. The pink balloons really seemed to disconcert Colin Powell...
...that encourages homosexuals to publicly declare their sexual orientation. He insisted he has lived a celibate life, as Christian teaching requires of the unmarried, and declined to label himself as either heterosexual or homosexual. Ironically,TIME religion writer Richard Ostlingreports, the promotion is no gay lib step, but a sop to traditionalists: Hope is an "Anglo-Catholic" who opposed a historic bill that allows women priests...
...they call it this because it is round and cylindrical like a biscuit. I can find no similarities, however, between a puck and a biscuit. I mean, come on, a puck is rock hard, and where I come from a biscuit is a fluffy, buttery roll you use to sop up grits and gravy...
...savvy political maneuver, but it shouldn't fool anyone. If the considerations were primarily financial, CPB would not be such a priority. Its budget is minuscule--only $319 million a year--compared to other "wasteful" federal agencies that sop up far more government dollars...