Word: disses
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...flavors. Regular verbs like walk and smell form the past tense by adding -ed: Today I walk, yesterday I walked. English has thousands of them, and new ones arise every day, thanks to our ability to apply rules instinctively. When people first heard to spam, to mosh and to diss, they did not run to the dictionary to look up the past tenses; they knew they were spammed, moshed and dissed...
While the kids sometimes seem to diss him in class, Yates sees them as simply being comfortable enough to be themselves. At times they stay after class for advice, a measure of his influence. One afternoon in the counseling office, he saw Patrick Velten, a senior who plays soccer and is the kicker on the varsity football team, looking up colleges Yates says the teen couldn't pronounce. Knowing Pat's grades, Yates suggested, gently, that he consider the Navy or the Coast Guard and discuss it with his father. The next day, Pat stopped...
...much that Clinton would have to negotiate "on his knees" to avoid dipping into the Social Security pool for his own programs. Well, they've spent more than that, and the Social Security surplus is indeed in danger. So when Clinton took some time at the microphones Thursday to diss the Republican plan, he was so confident he actually broke into laughter. "It's a familiar dance," says Dickerson. Maybe someday they'll learn how to lead...
WINNER PARKS. YO, BRO, YOU SHOULDN'T DISS RO/ EVERYBODY KNOW, THAT...
...blossom. More than a third of the festival's $2.2 million budget is underwritten by some 60 corporations. The truth is, the festival hasn't been about cherries in decades--something that locals tend to acknowledge only in hushed tones. Around here, it's almost sacrilegious to diss the festival. "Most people aren't really interested in learning about the cherry industry," concedes 50-year-old Eddie Baur (no, not that one), owner of a downtown liquor store. Instead "it's about the carnival, air shows and concerts," says Baur. Even this year's festival president, David Skibowski, admits that...