supertanker hotel n.— «Secondary and tertiary cities across the U.S. are using “supertanker” hotels to anchor revitalization. » —by New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies 29 Annual International...
festino n.— «It’s that time of year again when lovers of the arts, fondly known as festinoes, make their annual pilgrimage to the Grahamstown Arts Festival in the Eastern Cape.» —“Witsies will also have a role to play at the...
Broken Pipe n.— «It would be foolish to think that Browne transformed BP from a dirty oil company to a progressive, renewable, squeaky-clean energy source. On the contrary, BP has a dismal environmental record—critics jokingly refer to...
maternal wall n.— «Nationally, studies have documented what some researchers call “the maternal wall”: once working women let it be known that they are pregnant or have children, they are less likely to be hired, promoted, or given raises...
monoprogeny n.— «Three of my closest friends are also only children and, now in our mid-30s, we have been supporting and feuding with each other in a proto-sibling way since meeting at university. We realised this a few years ago, when a...
heart-attack kids attrib.— «The Bradley Braves, leading the Missouri Valley Conference, “”are the hottest show in town.”…The Braves, dubbed “the heart-attack kids’’ by some fans for their last-second heroics...