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3. In case you're looking for a shorter term,

Mon Jan 23, 2017, 02:36 PM

Jan 2017

the previously nearly obsolete, but now suddenly resurgent term is "claque".

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Are the taxpayers footing the bill for the traveling applause corps? [View all] unitedwethrive Jan 2017 OP

In case you're looking for a shorter term, marybourg Jan 2017 #3

Any official travel vouchers should be available under the FOIA Jacob Boehme Jan 2017 #4

You betcha. It's an indispendable presidential appendage. dalton99a Jan 2017 #5

So, we are paying for the clap even though WE do not have it? Doreen Jan 2017 #6