Word: epithet
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...environmental movement is..." Werbach pauses, searching for an epithet. "Mature," he finally says, with distaste. To appeal to Gen X, it must focus on local action, with an accent on multiculturalism. "When I started the Sierra Student Coalition, I took s___ for selling out to a white organization," Werbach says. "It is not just about Yosemite and the beauty of the wilderness. It is about cities--the air we breathe and the water we drink. When I speak in urban grade schools, their No. 1 issue is the rain forest! That is disempowering, when these communities are surrounded by incinerators...
...previous position as a drama critic for The Times earned him the nickname "The Butcher of Broad-way" for his harsh analyses--an epithet to which he referred laughingly during his talk...
...Harvard, you never hear a racial epithet, but then again, you never see blacks and whites together like you do in the South," he added...
Before coming to CSN, Marques was finance secretary for the city of Rio de Janeiro--a job of Augean proportions. When she arrived in 1993, city coffers held a paltry $5 million. In two years' time, Marques--earning the epithet "the Billion-Dollar Woman"--turned Rio's battered fortunes completely around, cutting wasteful programs, renegotiating service contracts and declaring war on tax dodgers. By the time she left, the city's reserves were pumped up to $1.2 billion...
...that the heroic news man unleashed such ire at the Politco of Politicos, at a guy who might just as well have run the Undergraduate Council. It couldn't just have been Clinton who upset Brinkley. Surely that infamous Eli, George Herbet Walker Bush, could easily have earned the epithet of a "bore." It was the false objectivity, the boxed information, the unfortunate categorization of the television news that Brinkley detested. Of Clinton's victory speech, Brinkley opinionated that it was "one of the worst things I've ever heard...