Word: vests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Charles M. Vest also cracked at least one joke during the otherwise-staid ceremony. Having been told by Clinton that he was a "model president," Vest said he looked up the word "model" in the dictionary and found a startling definition: "a small replica of the real thing...
Every few weeks, outside the movie theater in virtually any American town in the late 1910s, stood the life-size cardboard figure of a small tramp--outfitted in tattered, baggy pants, a cutaway coat and vest, impossibly large, worn-out shoes and a battered derby hat--bearing the inscription I AM HERE TODAY. An advertisement for a Charlie Chaplin film was a promise of happiness, of that precious, almost shocking moment when art delivers what life cannot, when experience and delight become synonymous, and our investments yield the fabulous, unmerited bonanza we never get past expecting...
...books. If we can extrapolate from cybercave-wall stuff like Cyberswine, the next thousand years of storytelling will put us in the director's seat. The descendants of video games, interactive TV, online environments like MUDs and MOOs (where Net folks cavort in text-based worlds) and hypertext will vest the power to create in the viewers' hands...
...knife goes through the vest like a piece of paper. You can put a steel plate in the chest for a higher caliber gun than nine millimeter," Officer Derosiers explains...
...President Vest has been very responsive. When any president has to tell parents that their child died it has to have an effect. It really, really hurt him; you could see that he really did feel pain...