It's time again for a newsletter from A Way with Words, public radio's program about words, language, and how we use them. This past weekend we plundered the Australian National Dictionary, which is now available in full online, by sharing...
hotlining n.— «Sen. Daniel Akaka, the Democratic chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee, stopped Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison late Thursday from bypassing the committee process and pushing her bill straight to a vote, a procedure known...
shock probation n.— «A state district judge in Texas on Thursday revoked Taylor’s probation from a state felony drug possession charge, sentencing him to two years in jail. She then suspended the sentence for five years under a process...
small wind n.— «While a county-funded wind-testing project is about to begin, the first three months of data from an unrelated wind project at farms near Deerfield and Blissfield was collected Thursday.…The program is focused on...
ground game n.— «With polls showing an agonizingly tight contest between Hillary Clinton and her Democratic rivals and also among Republicans, the quirky statewide caucuses on Thursday could rest on who has the best “ground game,” in...
Blessing Way n.— «On Thursday December 14th at 12:00 pm we will be holding a Blessing Way for our friend and midwife Lauren Hodges whose baby is due December 29th. A Blessing Way is a ceremony honoring change in a woman’s life. We would...