Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That comment prompted an angry conference call from the Obama campaign, which announced that it was forming a South Carolina Truth Squad to respond to all of the Clintons' accusations. One that particularly has upset Obama is Bill Clinton's innuendo in Nevada, which his wife mentioned during the debate and he himself repeated yesterday, that Obama somehow supports the Republican Party's platform. The flap grew out of this Obama remark last week: "I think it's fair to say the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last...
Lahore is a stronghold of opposition leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and is home to plenty of Bhutto supporters as well. In a place that's so heavily anti-Musharraf, innuendo seems to feed on itself. On the city's main street, lined with policemen holding batons and wearing anti-riot gear, two teenagers out for a walk say they have also heard about a possible government connection to the attack but cannot offer any evidence to back up the claims. "My mother told me not to talk about this topic on my mobile or telephone because...
...Coast rivalry, Stanford professor Marcyliena Morgan may just be too legit to quit. After ditching Harvard for California when then-President Lawrence H. Summers denied her tenure, Professor Morgan is due back in Cambridge this January as a tenured professor. FM chatted with Morgan by phone about Ebonics, sexual innuendo, and the future of Hiphop. 1.Fifteen Minutes: You’ve been called the “hip-hop” professor. Harvard isn’t exactly the heart of hip-hop. Why study hip-hop here? Marcyliena Morgan: What happens with hip-hop is that someone will think...
When we try to untangle this web of accusation and innuendo, Giuliani appears to be suggesting that it is unacceptable for a Senator to express skepticism about anything said by a general in uniform. If he believes that, he does not understand democracy. I am shocked by this. In fact, if Giuliani doesn't apologize, and if the other Republican candidates don't condemn this commercial, I think I'm going to faint...
...need to know, and also things we wish we didn't. Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world. It's not surprising that we sheathe our words in politeness and innuendo and other forms of doublespeak. FROM THE STUFF OF THOUGHT BY STEVEN PINKER...