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...Those who claim some British ancestry will be making their way to the "BAFTA-LA" event on Saturday afternoon. Despite sounding like a Greek pastry, this is actually an acronym for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts-Los Angeles and is the British equivalent of AMPAS (American Motion Picture Arts & Sciences). The L.A. chapter consists of members of the British film industry in self-imposed exile on the West Coast. (Some wags posit that the British contingent in Hollywood is the British film industry in its entirety...
...cultivation of nicknames, because everyone had one. From his father George ("Poppy") Bush, the war hero with one of those curiously effeminate preppie nicknames (like "Bunny" and "Pinkie"), to Barbara ("Bar") Bush (no one dared stray farther from the source name), to brother John Ellis ("Jeb") Bush's acronym of a name, to family friends "Spider" and "Wemus" and countless others, in Bushworld everyone had to have a nickname, and if you didn't, they'd give...
...gene that occurs naturally in jellyfish, where it directs the production of a harmless protein that glows with a greenish light under the right illumination. Mice, rabbits and other creatures who have had the same gene inserted actually do shine dimly; while ANDi (his name is a backward acronym for "inserted DNA") does not, the scientists have detected traces of the gene in his muscle, hair, cheek and blood cells. The researchers suspect that the gene may not be expressing its protein--or at least not at detectable levels--and may turn on fully only as ANDi ages...
...Gore imagined it well enough that very day for his after-church inner-circle huddle Sunday to include Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar and former U.S. solicitor general. Nobody's saying what the plan is, but the acronym "SCOTUS" immediately springs to mind...
Above all, we must not feel defeatist. We can change the habits of our society. We can make waves out of Harvard that may eventually lap the west coast. I suggest we start by running a competition for a slogan with a suitable acronym. To get the ball rolling, what about "Students Of Merit Need Undisturbed Sleep...