Word: copping
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TIME generally avoids slang and jargon and feels gutter language is best left there. Among discouraged words are cop and kid. Also scowled upon are clich�s--nothing should become a household name--and the likes of "tantamount to" and "may well," "arguably" and "recently." (One of the managing editor's most sweeping suggestions, arguably, was: "Approach with caution any word that ends with ly.") For consistency, numbers below 13 are always spelled out, and contractions are avoided, except in quotations. Particularly troublesome are transliterations from such languages as Chinese, Russian and Arabic. In TIME, Libya's leader is Gaddafi...
...every day for six months. Coulter is terrified her address will become public, and she sometimes hides behind a surgical mask when she flies. Ever since two men threw pies at her at the University of Arizona last year, she has traveled with a bodyguard, a bourbon-drinking ex-cop who says, quite believably, that he can kill with his bare hands. Even so, Coulter told me her most persistent stalker "is the one who will kill me someday...
Dillon, for his part, didn’t think twice about playing a sleazy, xenophobic cop. “If it’s a good part, I do it. I don’t worry about protecting some image,” he says...
...graze the masses on this mundane feed. Another year, another decision as to on what mindless America shall suck: do we feel that it’s time for Sex Pistols redux? How about a new Madonna? There’s no sense of pushing things forward, to cop a phrase from Mike Skinner, an artist whose independent work is exciting because it does just that: the Streets expose audiences to the laddish rap of Britain, a new artist, a new voice. An informed and active interest in music demands that we constantly push our boundaries, exposing ourselves to these...
...It’s having to act as a cop toward its students on something that the university really has no business being involved in,” Palfrey said. “I think that the university is in a hard spot because it’s forced by the law to turn over information about its students...