Word: souvenired
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...generation of presidential candidates to have shared their law school classes with women or their homes with actual feminists. This puts them in a different geological era from Bush, who, when questioned about appointing women to office, mentioned the woman in his Administration who's responsible for doling out souvenir tie clips, or Perot, who cited his wife and "four beautiful daughters...
...pronounce; these days it is hard to avoid. Rush (friend and foe alike are on a first-name basis) talks about political and social issues for 15 hours a week, and 13 million listeners tune in on 529 radio stations. He writes a book of his opinions -- a $22 souvenir program, really, of the radio show -- and it sits for weeks atop the New York Times best-seller list; with 1.1 million copies in print a month after its publication date, The Way Things Ought to Be is the hottest hard-cover nonfiction title since Iacocca. Then he tries...
Many of the souvenir and refreshment stands in Madison Square Garden were converted to press information centers or security stations for the convention. The dearth of food stands, combined with the 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. convention sessions, resulted in scenes that resembled a Russian supermarket...
...except for a few details, was dumped. There are no roof, no sides, no back, only a front wall consisting of cheap wire mesh nailed to cheap metal studs. Inside sit a pair of geodesic domes previously used in trade shows, two huge Peter Max murals that look like souvenir-shop curios enlarged to billboard size, and a homely suburboid house that is meant to be typically American but seems quaint at best...
...QUEBEC is a French-speaking city in a French speaking province. The shopkeepers in Old Quebec speak French. So do the restaurateurs. Their establishments, which serve French entrees at suspiciously-similar prices, fill the houses that don't contain souvenir shops...