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...Giuliani's name came up a few times, most notably when Sen. Joseph Biden called Giuliani the "most under-qualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency... I mean, think about it. Rudy Giuliani. There's... there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb and 9/11...
...pretty tough, and the pun on the general's name is pretty witless. You could argue that since the verb betray and the noun traitor have the same root, the ad is accusing the head of American forces in Iraq of treason. The ad can also be interpreted - more plausibly if you consider the rest of the text - merely as questioning the general's honesty, not his patriotism. But whatever your interpretation of the ad, all the gasping for air and waving of scented handkerchiefs among the war's most enthusiastic supporters is pretty comical...
...Google, in its transition from a noun to a verb, has become more than a tool to find information online, it's quickly becoming the default tool to navigate the web, replacing the browser URL bar as the way to move from one website to the next. How do we know this? The secret to Google's primary use can be found in the top searches that people enter on the site. The #1 term, representing over 4% of all U.S. searches on Google, is for the site that surpassed Google last summer to become the most popular domain...
...most brutal South America has ever witnessed. His right-wing regime, which lasted 17 years until he ceded power to an elected civilian government in 1990, was responsible for the deaths or disappearances of more than 3,000 suspected communists and other leftists - "disappeared," in fact, became a noun during his reign - while thousands more were tortured or forced into exile (including Bachelet's family). Even banishment wasn't safe: in 1976, Pinochet henchmen assassinated former Chilean ambassador and Pinochet opponent Orlando Letelier by planting a bomb under his car in Washington, D.C. That same year, Pinochet's successes helped...
...caliginous when you mean dark, you are off the beaten track.” Complex words in student writing sometimes seem out of place, said Lydia A. Fillingham, a preceptor of the Harvard Expository Writing Program. “One thing people do a lot of is use the noun form instead of a verb. Instead of using ‘spent more,’ they write ‘spending increased,’” she said. Oppenheimer, like his study’s subjects, prefers straightforward writing. “If you want to communicate...