Word: accost
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...performance before class, as singing groups sometimes do. Suppose that, right afterwards, Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux said that Mizmor Shir’s performance made a nice segue into a discussion of the vocabulary of Yiddish. Would I have any pretext, any justification, any reason, to accost Vaux after class and demand an apology...
...Express Kidnapping" is the latest innovation among criminal gangs in Latin America who want to net the most cash in the least time. Here's how it works: criminals accost a well-dressed executive late at night in his car or as he emerges from an upscale restaurant. The victim is escorted at gunpoint to an ATM, where he is forced to make the maximum daily withdrawal--generally between $1,000 and $2,000. The kidnappers sometimes wait and force the victim to make another maximum daily withdrawal after the clock turns over, usually at midnight. A victim who doesn...
...would think, for instance, that smart kids would know better than to accost a local hobo, widely known for his violent outbursts of profanity and gibberish, and solicit his opinion of a local eatery. One might also think it beyond the complex minds of the intellectually talented to run around with towels as capes pretending to be superheroes and to organize a day dedicated to cross-dressing and prancing around in the undergarments of the opposite sex. My favorite example of eccentricity, though, occurred on the final day of the first term, when one student decided that his ice cream...
...abstained from participating in the standard, forced social interaction events of early freshman year. But more importantly, I became suspicious of other Harvard students. Seeing the utter vacuity to which some could stoop for even the most insignificant of goals, I began to mistrust anyone who would even casually accost me. Often such interactions would uncover a networker red-handed, as I watched their interest wane with satisfaction as I divulged my concentration (“Physics?! What do you do with that?”). I’d be damned if any palm-greasing, name-dropping, yarn-grubber...
...York is about to acquire a history, that it already has its ruins. This to adorn with a little softness the harshest city in the world." Yes, we have our ruins. We also have our songwriters. In the glory days of Tin Pan Alley, so-called songpluggers used to accost vaudeville vocalists, pushing them to perform their new compositions in hopes that they would make them into hits. New York is still just as aggressive, just as hungry, when it comes to songwriting. If Sting (who has an apartment in New York) could get a song out of the Cold...