Gyrene: one aspect of calling Marines gyrenes that I didn't hear mentioned is that they are (duh) an amphibious force. When do you see large numbers o...

The men at work at the corner of the street had made a kind of camp for themselves, where, marked out by tripods hung with red hurricane-lamps, an aby...

I still hear people refer to an ATM machine, but that's a subtly different thing, a pleonasm, a redundancy, like 7 am in the morning, as my father use...

Tucker said: I immediately thought "steVedore"-- a ship loader. Their expertise traditionally includes figuring out how to jam all the cargo in t...

Whip up a big batch of pistachio pudding, then add pineapple, walnuts, Cool Whip, and marshmallow bits, and what do you have? A Los Angeles woman says...