heartsink n.— «Heartsink patients may fit into four categories, the editorial says. Dependent clingers, entitled demanders, manipulative help-rejecters and self-destructive deniers. They can overwhelm and exasperate their doctors by their...
buyerwall n.— «buyerwall, n., BYE-uhr-wal: The barrier separating the non-paying web surfer from a site’s premium content. e.g.—”I’d link to that asinine editorial in the Vancouver Province, but it’s behind the buyerwall...
bunkering n.— «Going beyond Europe, a recent editorial in our own IHT brought to our attention the word “bunkering,” a “quaint term Nigerians use to describe outright stealing of crude oil by members of the armed forces...
cardinal n.— «The editorial mentioned that the district encompasses a good part of the old district of Sidney Yates, and talked about him as a so-called “cardinal” (a chairman of a House appropriations subcommittee). He was...
spadia n.— «A lucky smattering of folks who picked up The New York Times on Monday were treated to a spadia—a strip just wider than a column, overlapping the front page, that announced the day’s highlights… As it happens, the...
back door draft n.— «[Arnold] Garcia:&hellip’”The use of the increaseing dependence on the reserve and guard components amounts to, as one of the editorial writers said in a meeting yesterday, a back door draft...