affiliate; member; entrant; participant; (telephone) subscriber
these days; nowadays; recently
large stage; grand stage; the big stage; grand setting
on the same occasion; at the same time; coincidentally; along with; partly (to do, for)
good outward appearance; looking nice; being attractive; making a fine show
holiday; day off; furlough; absence (from work)
cruiser (i.e. warship or cabin cruiser)
everything; for (to) everything; (in) anything
not all bad; not as dissatisfied (or annoyed) as one would have others believe
to tighten; to press hard
dissemination; scattering; sprinkling; spraying
to inherit; to succeed; to take over
genealogy; lineage; family tree; pedigree
badness; evilness; bad; evil
beauty contest to name Miss ...
successive generations; successive emperors
becoming a mere shell; becoming a dead letter; losing (one's) substance; being reduced to a formality
those interested in participating; persons wishing to participate
to assemble everything together; to do something as a group
influence; clout; leverage
to accomplish; to finish; to fulfill
to go to the top; to climb to the top; to ascend to the top; to be engrossed in; to be very enthusiastic about; to be infatuated with
reliability; trustworthiness; dependability
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
to achieve results; to be successful (in a venture, etc.)
outside order; outsourcing; custom (manufacture)
adjustment; tweaking; improvement; modification; tinkering; minor alteration
hiss (esp. cat); sizzle; whoosh
starting field which contains the November and/or December 20-point card
illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault
index; index number; exponent (e.g. in floating-point representation); characteristic