Word: stripping
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...legal-age guests, and stacks of cash—purportedly 180,000 individual bills—with which to “make it rain.” The act of “making it rain” involves bringing large quantities of money to a locale (read: strip club), and then throwing said money in the air, thereby making it “rain” cash upon the revelers (read: strippers). Admittedly, the term is open to interpretation. When students were asked whether they were aware of the definition of making it rain, responses varied...
...anxious to show Palestinians that he did not return from the Annapolis summit empty-handed. Abbas needs all the help he can get from Israel and the U.S. He is locked in a power struggle with the Islamic movement Hamas, which last June seized control of the Gaza strip and chased out Abbas' militia...
There’s an element of the ludicrous in all this. In hacking away all narrative musings not directly pertinent to a novel’s plot, Orion and other abridgers strip novels of their essence. A classic does not become a classic just because it has an interesting story line, or else Stephen King would be on the AP English syllabus. Rather, a work is considered “good” because it points to something deeper, in society or in ourselves, beyond the realm of ordinary human experience. Tolstoy’s genius was to take...
...event was preceded earlier in the day by a game of “Final Status Taboo” held outside the Science Center. In the style of the popular quiz game Taboo, visitors were given cards with subjects such as Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, along with five taboo words underneath that could not be used to describe the subject...
...Both former leaders want the state of emergency lifted immediately and say they cannot take part in the election if it stays. If they boycott, the January poll will be a farce, and will strip away the last veneer of democracy that Musharraf has used to cover his dictatorship. But assuming the state of emergency is lifted and Sharif and Bhutto do compete, the big question becomes whether they can work together to try to wrest control of the parliament from Musharraf and his cronies. Sharif and Bhutto have very little in common other than a mutual dislike...