Word: joe
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School Committee member Joe Grassi said visits to the candidates' home districts helped him decide whether each had developed the skills needed to work with key problems in the Cambridge schools...
Winning one inconsequential playoff game in one of thousands of Little Leagues can't compare with winning the World Series. Or can it? For Alex, Ari, Billy, Bo, Chaz, Frankie, Jeff, Jon, Joe, Mark, Sam and Zach, it can. One big yellow flower bloomed in the outfield that day. Daisy? Daffodil? It certainly wasn't a dandelion. Let's hope it's a perennial, even if only in their memory...
...Joe Camel has been banished forever, but those beloved Budweiser frogs--succeeded by even cuter Budweiser lizards--keep marching along, right into the consciousness of every TV-watching kid in the country...
...staggering devastation. It kills 100,000 Americans a year--not only from disease but also from accidents. In 1996, 41% of all U.S. traffic fatalities were alcohol related. It causes huge economic losses and untold suffering. Why, then, do the Bud frogs get to play the Super Bowl while Joe Camel goes the way of the Marlboro...
Other epithets, many not so complimentary, play on proper names. To Hoover is to inhale or consume greedily; Ike is an uncouth fellow; LBJ, the military's Long Binh jail in Vietnam; Jerusalem Slim, the radical syndicalists' derisive name for Jesus; Oscar, an unpleasant or foolish man. Joe gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...