Word: greeks
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...black is a better athlete to begin with because he's been bred to be that way." JIMMY (THE GREEK) SNYDER, sports commentator, in a 1988 television interview AFTERMATH: Snyder, who was well liked, apologized but was later fired by CBS. OUTRAGE FACTOR...
GRECO-TURKISH TENSIONS Turkey banned the site for three days after a Greek user allegedly posted a clip calling the founder of modern Turkey--Mustafa Kemal Ataturk--a homosexual. The stir caused a virtual video war to break out, as Greeks and Turks posted YouTube clips insulting one another...
...Greek organizations have been officially barred from the Harvard campus for a century, and final clubs were disowned by the administration in 1984, after demands to go coed were rebuffed. Nonetheless, both sets of organizations have provided University Hall with their fair share of headaches. This latest report comes in response to what it calls “two near-death incidents” this past fall, one of which happened at an off-campus booze-fest hosted by a recognized student group, the other of occurred during a social club’s initiation...
...speechwriters “played them up for all they were worth,” scoring a “puppy bounce” in the polls), incorporated audience-appropriate cultural references (likening her catalog of rhetorical devices to a word list from “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”), and took logistical details in stride (making a swift transition from highlighting video clips to asking for audience questions during a technical glitch). The tutorial “really went into the nitty-gritty, beyond the granular” of speechwriting, said David J. Baron...
...trio, the Klaxons sure can make a ton of noise. This British band’s name comes from the Greek word “klaxon,” which basically means “to shriek.” And sometimes they do just that on their full-length debut “Myths of the Near Future.” The Klaxons are all about creating a fresh sound. While essentially a rock band, elements of both dance and pop music inflect their work. Songs such as “Atlantis to Interzone?...