Word: trot
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...adult epics like Les Miz; irreverent satires like Urinetown; dark musicals like Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. "There's a sense of we want to do something new and edgy," says Jeff Knoedler of Newton South High School outside Boston. "There's only so many times you can trot out Oklahoma! Our kids are doing musicals starting at camp since the fifth grade. They've already been in Fiddler on the Roof twice...
...great tragicomic figure of American politics: tragic because he may have indirectly delivered the 2000 election to George W. Bush, who has worked tirelessly to oppose virtually everything Nader spent his life promoting, and comic because every four years, he seems to forget what happened last time and trot back out, blissfully unaware of the impacts (or lack thereof) of his previous attempts. And this image, in turn, has become the face of third party candidacies in America. Every time he runs, Nader further assures the voting public that independent candidates are benign, irrelevant eccentrics at best, and truly pernicious...
...Just as we must ensure that Islam at large not be conflated with the broken neologism “Islamo-fascism,” when we hear an official trot out some turn of phrase casting Iran as an “enemy of democracy,” we must be careful of confusion. He refers to the absence of pro-American representative government, and ignores the factual if fragile mechanism for political participation in place. Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric is troubling, but it was endorsed and he empowered by democracy; in the end, he will have to reckon...
...find a cheaper solution. Hence his invention of the chili fence - a rope hung with rags smeared in engine grease mixed with crushed chilies. And chili smoke, generated by burning animal dung mixed with chilies. Elephants would get a whiff of that and, to the delight of nearby farmers, trot off trumpeting into the distance...
...would be lobbying the European Union to "stop the overwhelming presence of non-national players in club leagues." Under FIFA's proposal, each team could field only five foreigners in its starting side of eleven - roughly half the number powerhouse clubs like London's Arsenal and Chelsea regularly trot out. This has long been one of Blatter's pet issues. "When you have 11 foreigners in a team, this is not good for the development of football, for the education of young players," Blatter told reporters last month...