"Long live Apo!" everyone cried, using a nickname for Öcalan.
"I've known Sanjay for many years," he said, using a nickname for the restaurateur.
"We beat our beaters against the steel for them," he said, using a nickname for sledgehammers.
When the M.C. led a chant of "Long live Newroz," the crowd answered back, using a nickname for Ocalan, "Long live 'Apo.'" The slogan for the day put Ocalan first: "Freedom for Ocalan, Status for Kurds".
Mr. Barrett became "pretty tight with K.G. through some work they'd done together when K.G. was with Nike and Jamie was with Wieden & Kennedy," Mr. Gilbert said, using a nickname for Mr. Garnett.
"Joe Waverly," Mr. Vitale said, using a nickname for Mr. Cacace, "had a lot of heat on him -- the F.B.I. was all over him," so he wanted Mr. Gioeli to, in a sense, be his public face.
Patrick Beuth, writing at Zeit Online, said Mrs. Merkel's remark could be seen as a Mutti-Moment, a "mommy moment," using a nickname for the chancellor that refers to what is seen as her motherly style.
'There,' says the winner, 'Old Abe belongs to me.' 'Well, I'll send him over by the Petersburg express,'" said the Union soldier, using a nickname for the shells bombarding the city.
"If Twitteroor feels that virtual reality may help him climb the political ladder faster, he is yet to identify the contours of politics here," Mr. Majumdar wrote, using a nickname for Mr. Tharoor.
"President Barack Obama plans to start picking apart other sections of Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's sweeping budget proposals as he tries to paint the G.O.P. ticket as too extreme for the nation," the article read, using a nickname for the Republican Party.
