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...would gradually implement universal suffrage. It's hardly a radical blueprint, and it dovetails with Tsang's own target of achieving full democracy by 2012, when his new five-year term will end. The response out of Beijing to Chan's plan, however, was anything but welcoming. Chen Zuo'er, the deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, was at pains to stress that it was Beijing-and by implication, not local Hong Kongers-that took the lead on political reform during negotiations with the British prior to the handover. Present-day activists in Hong Kong, Chen...
...mentions her love life only occasionally on her show. O'Donnell, on the other hand, has become the hot-medium lesbian to DeGeneres' cool. Does everyone like her? No. It's fitting that she should feud with Trump, who, with his thing for younger ladies and erecting tall, ostentatious, er, buildings, is a caricature of male heterosexuality...
...would you please choose a number from one to 10 describing your pain - one being almost no pain and 10 the worst pain imaginable." The ER nurse's voice seemed to trail off as she got to the end of the mandated recitation...
...This patient had been in an automobile accident 48 hours earlier. After the accident she had gone home. She then came in to the ER the evening I was on call because she said her pain had become "excruciating - like I'm being stabbed with a thousand knives." Charlene complained of pain in her head and neck, both shoulders, upper back, lower back and one knee. There was not a mark on her. Between her physical exam, scans and X-rays, I was unable to find any abnormality other than nonreproduceable joint stiffness (they moved well except while I examined...
...spun off from literary sex journal Nerve com publishes articles by and for parents who can't quite believe they ended up doing something as square as raising a kid. (In his Babble blog Baby Daddy, Steve Almond endearingly refers to his 3-month-old as "the little f___er.") In a typical hipster-parent offering, an edgy novelist, musician or feminist sex writer has a baby--Me! Who'd'a thunk it!--and wrestles to reconcile his or her sensibility with the numbing demands of the cradle. For blogger Rebecca Woolf, that moment came when her baby barfed...