dead wagon n.— «The “dead wagon” was put on the Harlem company’s trade. This wagon is run by the protective association nominally to collect milk cans, witnesses testified, but its real value lies in the canvassing of every...
cooperatition n.— «Carole Bruce, the chairwoman of the Greensboro chamber, suggested coining a new word—”cooperatition”—to describe the current status of regionalism in the Triad. “We come together to celebrate our...
salvage v.— «One has to admire the way Panfilo Lacson has evolved as a public figure. The development of his vocabulary adequately reflects this. Ping is quoted as saying it would be “ridiculous for me to execute my own witness...
abbaco n.— «In marked contrast to the Jesuits, Piarists taught in the vernacular, not Latin, and over philosophical mathematics they favoured “abbaco”, or mercantile arithmetic.» —“Sins of the fathers” by...