Word: tears
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...marching band wasn’t so sympathetic. “I mean, at the end of the day, there’s nothing I can do about it,” says Head Manager Morgan A. Robinson. “I felt bad, and I cried a little tear, but whatever.” Yeah, whatever, Columbia...way to uphold the First Amendment...
...round-the-world tour himself. He brings the joy of getting to every child, including the Afro-American orphan, and there is joy in every land, and at the North Pole. It's all meant to bring edifying moisture to audiences' eyes. The more susceptible moviegoers may shed a tear or two, but they risk hating themselves in the morning. On the upside, they don't have to wait to hate Fred Claus...
...streets of the protest venue and flooded the park grounds where she was to speak in order to prevent supporters from sitting on the ground. A few hundred protesters clashed with police at the barricades, but any efforts to defy the security forces quickly dissipated under blasts of tear...
...other than a few dozen politicians and party workers, the streets surrounding Bhutto's house were swarming almost exclusively with journalists and security forces. Even when Bhutto managed to tear her way out of the house and address her public from the open sun-roof of a white land cruiser parked out front, a crowd of teenagers at a nearby empty lot continued to play cricket. The local-language press - generally cynical and conspiracy-minded - grumbled about the theatrics of the whole event, pointing out the lack of visible grass roots support for Bhutto in both Islamabad and Rawalpindi...
...perennial ruckus over little girls' slutty Halloween costumes was still going strong even as the perennial ruckus over the War on Christmas began. It's as though we've supersized our holidays, so that they start sooner, last longer and cost more, until the calendar pages pull and tear, and we don't know which one we are meant to be celebrating...