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Provided by the compucert berate \bih-RAYT\, transitive verb:
- To scold severely or angrily.
veepstakes
- The process a candidate for president goes through to choose a running mate. It's a portmanteau word combining the colloquial pronunciation of VP as "veep" and sweepstakes. The winner of the veepstakes is awarded the honor of being trashed in the media for the next 5 months.
B: I sure hope Brian Schweitzer wins the veepstakes!
Trivia
Why did famous American feminist Margaret Sanger flee the U.S. in 1914?
- To escape prosecution. She had been arrested for violating the U.S. Post Office’s obscenity laws by sending birth control information through the mail. The charges were dropped in 1916.
- New Orleans: was founded by French colonists (1718)
- Great Moon Hoax: the first of six articles appeared in The New York Sun, discussing a variety of animal life supposedly discovered on the moon (1835)
- English Channel: was swum for the first time, by Matthew Webb (1875); he died eight years later attempting a swim in the rapids beneath Niagara Falls
- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990): composer and conductor, West Side Story, Candide; musicians Gene Simmons (59), Rob Halford (57), Elvis Costello (54), Billy Ray Cyrus (47) and Jo Dee Messina (38)
- Althea Gibson (1927-2003): tennis champ; athletes Rollie Fingers (62), Albert Belle (42), Robert Horry (38) and Marvin Harrison (36) share this birth date
- Tom Skerritt (75): star of Picket Fences; also, actors Van Johnson (92), Mel Ferrer (1917-2008), Anthony Heald (64), Anne Archer (61), John Savage (59), Blair Underwood (44),
Claudia Schiffer (38), Eric Millegan (34) and 
Rachel Bilson (27) - Tim Burton (50): director, Beetlejuice; also, filmmakers Hugh Hudson (72), John Badham (69) and Marshall Brickman (67)
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