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...those? Of those what? The adjective in a noun's disguise was Goldhagen's awkward way of concealing from innocent readers that I had been writing of officers only...
...along with full-time fact-checkers--was to verify every fact in every written sentence that went into the magazine. I was to note that I had checked each word by placing a dot over it (and by placing a dot over each letter of every proper noun to show that I had verified the spelling). In an article about the construction of the Panama Canal, for example, a caption read, "A seventy-five-foot-high canal lock gate swings shut at Gatun...
...closed." In her chapter about the opening of the Stasi files, Kramer focuses on a poet, Alexander Anderson, who is a devotee of French literary criticism. When informing on a fellow poet named Uwe Kolbe, he "supplied the Stasi with the bewildering news that Kolbe was 'relieving the noun of its burden ... with phonetic adjectival exaggerations...
...night belonged to Berry. On one comment card, a student wanted to learn more about the Nutrition Bites cards throughout the dining halls: "Is 'bites' a noun or a verb...
...members of the Palestinian Higher Education Council. Some health-care professionals are outraged that Fathi, the head of the Palestine Red Crescent and the chairman's younger brother (and spitting image, sans beard and kaffiyeh), has been assigned a role encroaching on the turf of Health Minister Riyad Za'noun...