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...nomination is the word green. It's now on the lips of little-bitty babies coming from their mothers' wombs. It's being used by people who never thought about it before in their lives--people who never cared about recycling or anything like that. People who you would never think would do such a small thing are doing it because it's all about going green to make the world better...
...resolutions go, this one seems deceptively modest. "My ambition is to exterminate the word 'bumbling' from the vocabulary of profilers," says Boris Johnson, the Tory candidate to become mayor of London. "There's going to be a massive stamping down on the bumbling. Much less bumbling." A quick search on Google reveals the scale of the problem: a combination of the words Boris Johnson and bumbling produces more than 27,600 results. Sample sentence: "Everyone keeps telling me Boris Johnson's bumbling idiot routine is just that - a routine. I'm not so sure...
...while the ball went largely unloved. Off the field, a Quincy tutor chastised Dudley players, one of whom responded with several obscenities, and asked the tutor if he “wanted to fight.” The tutor responded with a written complaint. “Yeah, [the word ‘fuck’] is not polite,” Dudley soccer captain Eduardo A. Silva admitted, “but if you complain every time you use the ‘f-word’ in a soccer game...” Dudley IM reps Michael...
...Qian ’08: “This would just be a guess...maybe the Dead Sea. That’s a guess, it’s probably wrong.” 3. Can you spell appoggiatura, the 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee’s winning word? Rocksheng Zhong ’08: “A-P-O-G-I-T-O-R-A.” 4. Which of the following is most closely related to a whale? 1) manatee; 2) mouse; 3) pig; 4) kangaroo? Maureen E. Boyle...
...States,” Preston’s talk emphasized the significance of the Mexican immigrant community. “It is very different when you have one country, one foreign language, and so many illegal immigrants,” she said. Preston acknowledged that “the word ‘legal’ is a very hard sound byte to address,” making it harder for the government to explore legalization policies. Preston later said that while immigration is a civil issue, it is often thought of as a criminal matter...