Word: canting
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...Because the University hasn’t made a commitment to an academic objective for Allston we cant figure out where to start,” says Kathy Spiegelman, the director of the Allston Initiative...
Most of the moral arrogance here is typical of the cant Europeans incessantly write about the United States. Yet two of Higonnet’s outrageous assertions deserve particular attention...
With two games left to play against Columbia and Penn, Crimson (8-5-1, 2-2-1 Ivy) cant win the title even with a win over the Quakers, since Penn has won all five of its Ivy games thus...
...unusual phenomenon: a group of roaming laborers who spend half the year painting houses around the country and then return in winter to a self-contained, anachronistic universe. The Travelers arrange their children's marriages and, in front of "country people" (non-Travelers), speak a Gaelic-English dialect called "cant." ("Misli shayjo!" means "Go away, the police are here!") Some have traces of Irish accents, though their ancestors arrived in the U.S. 150 years ago. Says Michael McDonagh, one of the 30,000 Travelers still in Ireland, who has worked with hisU.S. counterparts: "Their sense of tradition is stronger there...
...Traveler settlement near Fort Worth, Texas, where Toogood has lived, local non-Travelers say prepubescent boys carry wads of cash and drive their parents' flashy new cars. Some Travelers are indeed yonks, the cant term for thieves. Six North Augusta Travelers pleaded guilty last year to using fraudulent documents to buy cars. Toogood's husband John is facing trial in Montana for allegedly duping elderly residents with faulty home-repair work...