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Weekend Words: Alliance
"Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
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Weekend Words: Gold
"In the gloom, the gold gathers light against it."
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Weekend Words: Fraud
"Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent."
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Weekend Words: Wax
"Being kissed by a man who didn’t wax his mustache was — like eating an egg without salt."
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Weekend Words: Melt
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand and there you are.
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Weekend Words: More
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
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Weekend Words: Hell
"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
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Weekend Words: Go
"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful."
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Weekend Words: Ruin
"A man is a god in ruins."
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Weekend Words: Vacant
"Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful."
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Weekend Words: Scale
"No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water."
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Weekend Words: Six
After deftly taking out Marco Rubio in the New Hampshire debate, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey was rewarded with sixth place in the nation’s first primary vote and exited the presidential arena “without an ounce of regret.”