Word: brushing
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...with everyone shouting at the top of their voices," she says. Her father, a textile merchant, died when she was a child; her widowed mother took over the family business before embarking on a successful career as an artist. (Chan's apartment is decorated with her mother's ink-brush paintings, and some of her mother's steely resolve seems to have rubbed off too.) Although she trained to become a social worker, Chan joined the government as an élite administrative cadet and enjoyed a 39-year career, marred only by a heavily criticized decision to separate a child...
...World Traveler courses, available on personal video screens. Now other airlines are following suit - this year, Continental, KLM and Air France began offering the onboard language-tuition program, which teaches the basics of up to 23 languages in 21 languages. So should you be from Brazil and need to brush up on your Tamil, or from Vietnam and require a few phrases of Arabic, a course option will have it covered. The lessons are structured by theme - numbers, dates, words and dialogue - and there are tests and games to keep you entertained. Passengers who complete a course may even...
...once every five years, sees senior cadres of the 70 million-strong Party gather to hammer out what policies the central government will pursue until the next meeting. More importantly to many, they also decide who will be implementing those policies - and who will be going back home to brush up a bit more on their Das Kapital...
...Seinfeld, George Carlin, and making as many sexual references as possible.Pinker’s lengthy and detailed categorization of “his little friends”—verbs—plods along, reading like a lecture in Linguistics 101. There are moving and changing verbs (brush, dribble, shake), verbs of having, knowing, and helping (bring, tell, fix), and verbs of acting, intending, and causing (march, come, kill). Verbs in their contexts determine a specific understanding of intention and situation, Pinker reminds us. After all, in English, “juice dripped from the peach?...
...recent films have tried to do just that: Rang De Basanti made a realistic portrayal of disaffected Delhi youth; Omkara was an adaptation of Othello; and Khosla ka Ghosla was a realistic portrayal of a Delhi family's brush with unscrupulous estate agents...