Word: ado
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...House Tutor Arrested for Assault,” Dec. 6) was indeed not an incident of domestic violence, as Kirkland House Master Tom Conley believes. What concerns me in the article is Conley’s lighthearted reaction. Conley stated that the incident “was much ado about nothing” and called the incident “a moment of early evening stress.” While this may be true, the description mirrors many other examples of domestic violence: the victim calls the police, but later retracts the report, calling the incident...
...incident] was a tempest in a teapot. It was much ado about nothing. Nothing happened to anyone, there was really no willful action to hurt anyone and this was very clearly stated by both parties,” Conley said...
...this irritates Monica's husband Seiku. "It is much ado about nothing," he says. "My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle." He is peeved at his wife's fame, in part because the press is constantly at his doorstep. "I want to stop this jamboree, people coming with cameras every few hours or so." He concedes that the locket is part of the story of Monica's ordeal but says no one should suppose there was a cause-and-effect relationship between it and the cure. "My wife did feel less pain one night when...
...this irritates Monica's husband Seiku. "It is much ado about nothing," he says. "My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle." He is peeved at his wife's fame, in part because the press is constantly at his doorstep. "I want to stop this jamboree, people coming with cameras every few hours or so." He concedes that the locket is part of the story of Monica's ordeal but says no one should suppose there was a cause-and-effect relationship between it and the cure. "My wife did feel less pain one night when...
Parsley, or perejil, is considered so easy to come by and so indispensable in Spanish kitchens that it is given away. When you buy your fruit and vegetables at the local market a puñado or fist of parsley is usually flourished wordlessly into the shopping bag without your asking. When I first started living here and offered to pay for it, a stallholder admonished, "We don't make a fuss over perejil." Last week, however, the Spanish got both fussy and fisty over a place that got its name from the plant, a tiny island called Perejil...