Word: closeting
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...debate over patients' rights will never seem dry or academic to me. When a routine mammogram revealed a cancerous growth in my right breast earlier this year, I felt as though I had stumbled into a dark closet during a nightmare. The bad dream became worse when the doctor's office called to tell me that my insurance company wouldn't cover the biopsy I needed. I called the company, and a representative said I had been dropped because I had failed to send in a renewal form--odd, since my premiums were automatically billed to my credit-card account...
...ended up at Nobu with friends, and there was Ermakova, the colossal blunder he didn't make until his career's last day. He was still buzzing with the thrill of his final match, still wanting a piece of the action. Then he was in a closet; standing outside himself for the second time that day, he watched someone named Boris Becker drunkenly sire a daughter. "I had no idea what I was doing," he says. "It wasn't an affair. It was just poom-bah-boom...
...Jack Paar Show," 1960: Paar walks off the show because NBC has censored some terrible words he uttered on the air. The words were not really words but initials: W.C., for water closet, the British equivalent of toilet...
TREND Beautifiers that use parts of human or animal placenta to rejuvenate skin are coming out of the closet...
...most stylish way to say you're out of the closet b) polluting indoor air c) California's energy solution d) wiping out entire fields of potpourri...