Word: caveat
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...rode through the February darkness along the Potomac to his Mount Vernon estate, he brooded about what had happened and determined to write a book. He had his meticulous notes put in a word processor and then brought in Novelist Charles McCarry, who helped Alexander Haig write his memoir, Caveat, to restructure the material...
...Latin term that anyone even remotely connected to Harvard can translate is veritas. A more useful term for the Harvard Board of Overseers might be caveat emptor let the buyer beware...
...execution. However, one might argue with her overwrought prose and with many of her food preferences (mayonnaise on gefilte fish, garlic in Manhattan clam chowder, bottled spaghetti sauce). Kafka suggests the microwave for ridiculous purposes, such as preparing white sauce and melting butter. A more serious caveat: manufacturers, concerned about the danger of burns, disagree with Kafka's recommendation to deep fry in a microwave...
...Caveat Emptor! L'etat, c'est moi! Don't it make your brown eyes blue! Not mine, certainly, but I confess to feeling a surge of indignation, all the same, at this fatuous manifestation of a meddling, bloated, neo-Johnsonian "Great" Societish welfare state Gorgon that I had long hoped would never rear its ugly head in the sartorially innocent groves of Eli academe...
...economy marked by low inflation and slow growth in which the number of well-paying jobs for young people seems to be steadily declining, loan repayment will constitute a heavier burden in the future than it did in the 1960s and '70. "We should not take a caveat emptor attitude toward students," she says...