Word: jab
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...determine the world's most influential people, Chinese author Han Han wrote a blog post announcing, "Other Chinese nominees include sensitive word, sensitive word and sensitive word." It was something of an inside joke, but one that Han's huge fan base would immediately get. "Sensitive word" was a jab at China's Web censors' habit of sometimes blocking even commonplace names from display in blog posts and Web searches. Within days, his post had generated more than 20,000 comments, most in support of the writer, a few in opposition and many grumbling about the state of online freedom...
Some on campus may joke that Mather House is “the box that Dunster came in,” but this jab does not stop incoming Mather House Masters Christie A. McDonald and Michael D. Rosengarten from appreciating the building’s concrete beauty...
...Angeles bureau of Fox News to make a live appearance on Fox's politics and business show America's Nightly Scoreboard. He'll then tape a segment for the late-night talkfest Red Eye, whose host, Greg Gutfeld, is a contributor to Big Journalism. On Scoreboard, Breitbart takes another jab at Blumenthal. On Red Eye, he shoots for bigger game. "I want it to be in the history books," he proclaims, "that I took down the institutional left, and I think that's gonna happen...
...want a substantive discussion," President Obama said Tuesday, just moments before his press secretary, Robert Gibbs, stood before reporters with the words eggs, milk and bread written on his palm - a mocking jab at potential Republican 2012 contender, Sarah Palin, who was caught cribbing speech notes from her hand over the weekend...
...panel also criticized Wakefield for failing to disclose that, while carrying out the research, he was being paid by lawyers acting for parents who believed their children had been harmed by the MMR jab...