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Whinge: To complain, incessantly. Can also be used as a noun, as in, she’s such a whinger...
...Play: The READER asks each WRITER to call out a word—an adjective or a noun or an overused journalistic cliché or whatever the space calls for—and uses them to fill in the blank places in the story. The result is an FM Mad Libs game...
Harvard is known for its _________ (adjective) museums, _________ (adjective) professors and its red brick _________ (plural noun). It’s not the first place in the world you would expect to find a world-class collection of second-class postage. But, like it often is, Harvard is full of _________ (synonym for surprises...
...started off thinking that stamps were just for _________ (verb ending in “ing”) _________ (plural noun),” Nichols enthuses, “but then I saw this old stamp collection when I was surfing _________ (major online auction beginning in “e-”) one day and I had always wanted a hobby, so I bought it and _________ ! (exclamation) I was a stamp collector,” says Nichols as he segued to a thoughtful pause and cast his gaze through the window at the dying rays of a _________ (sunset color) sunset...
...course the imbroglio over the Bush Administration's failure to find the evidence to back its scary prewar claims about the threat to America supposedly posed by Saddam Hussein has not yet reached the point of critical mass that would leave editors scratching their heads over just what noun to put before that suffix - Iraq-gate? Saddam-gate? War-gate? What is already marking the current unraveling as different from any that have gone before is its transatlantic dimension: President Bush, for example, invoked British government findings to underscore the authority of his claims against Saddam - most unfortunately...