Word: epithet
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...part, Bourbeau thinks "Killer B's" is an appropriate epithet...
...appropriate epithet, because despite the crew's rude antics, they rowed smoothly enough to defeat the Washington Huskies, who had been considered Harvard's toughest opponent...
...author of The Prophet could not have provided a more fitting epithet for his own tortured homeland. In Lebanon, moreover, even the fragments have - fragments. The country is split not just between Christians and Muslims. The Christian community is composed of both Maronites and Greek Orthodox; the Muslim one is made up of Sunnis, Shi'ites and Druze. In the chaotic redistribution of power now taking place, the most serious challenge has come from Lebanon's Shi'ites, who constitute some 40% of the population but have long been relegated to second-class citizenship. In the process of winning...
...funeral was in the high school, and everyone came. The teachers still had not settled on a new contract, the town of Sauk Centre being one of a handful in Minnesota holding out against higher pay. (During a strike a couple of years ago, "teacher lover" became an epithet thrown at anyone supporting the picket line.) The Main Street merchants were, as always, keeping a censorious eye on anyone seen taking money away from Main Street to the shopping center in St. Cloud...
...women, wielding power is often difficult for what amounts almost to aesthetic reasons. Men, even if they are martinets, are rarely called bossy, and there is no epithet for men that is quite the equivalent of "bitchy." "Power is a tough issue for women," says Columbia Associate Professor Ethel Klein, author of Gender Politics. "Taking power is aggressive. It's not 'nice.' " Thus, for virtually all women, suggests Klein, Ferraro's nomination "is a watershed." Such a ripple effect, buoying women who are outside the narrow channel of politics, may finally be more significant than...