Word: washingtonian
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...real Washingtonian until you've seen the July 4 fireworks on the Mall...
...lived in the D.C. suburbs nearly all my life without experiencing this uniquely Washingtonian Independence Day ritual. This was the summer, I decided, to claim my birthright as a citizen of the nation's capital...
Does my answer make me the stereoptype of, and spokesperson for, the random place with which I identify at that moment? As a Parisian, would it automatically be assumed that I am a snob, or as a Washingtonian, a political junkie? Perhaps I am both, or neither...
...traffic in this Washingtonian and Black conservative delusion. I daresay that Roger Landry, Adam Jones and other members of Peninsula would not dare fashion an anti-Italian poster with a denigrating reference to the Mafia, or an anti-Jewish poster with a denigrating, anti-Semitic reference to Jewish Americans. The Peninsula crowd of schoolboy racists would not dare do this...
...Marilyn's most undiplomatic words were aimed at Secretary of State James Baker, who may compete with her husband for Bush's job four years from now and is a formidable Washingtonian in the meantime. Baker is not only Bush's closest friend and former campaign manager, but also has accumulated friends around the capital since he arrived 17 years ago. It was Baker, Marilyn complained to the Post, who was responsible for Quayle's fumbling first appearance at the riverfront rally in New Orleans in August 1988, because the campaign sent no one to greet him. He was also...