Word: broom
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...COMMENT] Discovered by Robert Broom in 1938, it is found only in southern Africa and is not a direct human ancestor...
According to Claire V. Broom, M.D., a former colleague of his at the CDC, Satcher has been effective in making minority healthcare a national concern...
Suppose that on one fateful night in August 1997, New York City cop Justin Volpe had contented himself with pummeling Abner Louima with his nightstick instead of ramming a broom handle into Louima's rectum and then waving it in front of his face. Suppose that after that vicious assault, Volpe had not pranced around the precinct house with the blood-and-feces-stained stick, inviting other cops to examine it. And suppose the victim had not made the headline-grabbing (though phony) allegation that his tormentors had exulted, "This is Giuliani time!"--a reference to the city's tough...
...gleeful exclamation of 65-year-old Desiree, a recent immigrant from Haiti, when she finally comprehended the term. Native English speakers take the words "broom," "sweep," "dishes" and "hammer" for granted. These brand new vocabulary words and phrases will be of critical importance to newly arrived low-income Americans, as they struggle to understand help-wanted advertisements, American shopping malls and even soap operas...
...about spring break) as Antonio begins his morning janitorial duties as an employee of UNICCO, a private cleaning company sub-contracted by Harvard. In fact, the night owls among us are barely donning pajamas as Antonio, clad in the white and blue freshly starched UNICCO uniform, takes up mop, broom and cleaning solution...