Word: ushered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President may be able to look into Vladimir Putin?s eyes and see his soul, but he cannot tell when an employee is lying through his teeth. On the evening of July 4, George W. Bush was approached by a White House usher who told him that his brand new Oval Office rug had arrived. Wouldn?t he like to take a peek at it? The President said he?d love to, opened the door and was greeted by 85 friends gathered for a surprise birthday party...
...days of the Clinton presidency dwindled, Roger Clinton was in great demand by pardon seekers. Lawyers for two of them shipped documents to Roger Clinton at the White House in care of the usher's office, sources said. Neither of them received clemency...
...Some things about Fenway are just a little bit different. Where I come from, an usher is the 80-year-old man named Ernie at the movie theater who takes my ticket and reminds me to donate spare change to cystic fibrosis research. At Shea Stadium, where the Mets have languished under the roar of LaGuardia air traffic since the 1960s, all the ushers are brittle octogenarians dressed up in cute age-appropriate Mets gear—orange bow ties and suspenders. But at Fenway, the ushers double as beefy security guards, always ready to hustle up the bleacher stairs...
...Nicole B. Usher ’03, a Crimson editor, is a history concentrator in Cabot House. She spends her days killing flies in her Let’s Go office...
...Staff writer Nicole B. Usher can be reached at usher@fas.harvard.edu...