Word: whopper
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Summers laughed off the question, quoting Fiorello LaGuardia, a former New York mayor, saying, "When I screw up, it's a whopper," adding that he meant to visit Boston as well...
...date past quakes, and because of this new evidence, we now know that there have been major northwestern earthquakes over the past couple thousand years. And that means, of course, that there will probably be another. So it's only lately that we've realized we've got a whopper on our doorstep...
...commit a spontaneously emotional act. He grabbed his wife, kissed her carefully, and then something overcame him and he wrapped his arms around her even tighter and gave her the most fervent kiss any politician has ever planted on a wife in public--a big, face-sucking whopper that caught Tipper off guard, silenced the pundits for a good five seconds and sent the hall into a kind of superheated frenzy. The speech was good, but a week later, it was the kiss that people were still talking about, particularly men, who saw in Gore either something they had never...
...staff members were so excited by his performance that they spun themselves into a whopper, telling reporters they had been swamped with favorable calls from viewers around the country. Problem was, the show hadn't aired around the country; it had just finished taping in Chicago...
...staff members were so excited by his performance that they spun themselves into a whopper, telling reporters they had been swamped with favorable calls from viewers around the country. Problem was, the show hadn't aired around the country; it had just finished taping in Chicago...