Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Campaign-hardened Republicans used to treat the phrase "global war on terror" so casually, even affectionately, that they talked about "the G-WOT," after the four-letter abbreviation used in White House calendars to denote Iraq messaging meetings. Democrats embraced it, too, with John Kerry asserting during his acceptance speech...
Even Bush has nodded to shifting nomenclature, telling students and business leaders last month at Tippecanoe High School in Tipp City, Ohio: "Now we're involved in a - I call it a global war against terror. You can call it a global war against extremists, a global war against radicals...
The parties have tried to draw a line at February 5 - Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean has even threatened to penalize Florida by cutting its number of delegates to the 2008 national convention if it holds its primary before that date, and the Republicans have issued a similar warning. That...
As for those humorously named pies ("Baby Screaming its Head Off in the Middle of the Night and Ruining My Life" is another) you come to accept them as a convention this movie seems to require. Besides, they look delicious, unlikely as some of their ingredients appear to be. They...
While the best-known fanboys, including Knowles and Garabedian, are caressed by the studios, which invite them to events and film sets and even have publicity divisions to work especially with them, the fanboy effect is most pronounced for smaller-budget releases like Smith's. Shaun of the Dead, 2004...