Word: ooh
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...Cabot House superintendent thinks that mail forwarding is an optional duty. My summertime Mr. Right Now envelope is probably wilting under stacks of un-forwarded telephone bills and Widener overdue notices, while my Mr. Right Now has been forced to move down his “ooh baby baby” list to lucky contestant number...
...cell phones are so pervasive, scientists fear, even birds living in rural areas are familiar with the tone. You?ve got to give the birds some credit. What better way to grab a mate?s undivided attention? Our feathered friends have obviously taken note of the phenomenon known as "Ooh-hang-on-while-I-get-that-cell-phone-call" - that blind and manic need to drop everything and answer a call - that sadly afflicts so many humans, including heart surgeons, air-traffic controllers and, apparently, even my wandering friend in North Carolina. Let?s just hope those poor birds aren...
...those of us whose employment does not directly depend upon darting in and out of international locales on a semi-daily basis. These findings, after all, provide us with a great excuse for extending our vacations: You wanted me back at the office for that board meeting next week? Ooh, sorry. No can do. I?ve recently learned that returning from Fiji so quickly could be dangerous to my spatial cognitive functioning. And I really can?t imagine you?d want an employee hampered by such a terrible impediment hanging around the office...
...Collateral damage,” Timothy McVeigh calls the victims in Oklahoma City, and the people who want to “cure” evil ooh and aah, as if the Middle American murderer is expressing a horrifyingly original thought. But the story of humanity, from the Mongol hordes sacking Silk Road cities and piling up skulls like gumdrops, to Hutus and Tutsis hacking at each other in the Rwandan bush, has always been one of “collateral damage”—of killing people who happen to get in your...
It’s like the University took some old toys they were keeping in the backyard, wrapped them up in paper and string and presented them to PSLM as Christmas presents. Then they unwrapped them in front of all of us on Tuesday, ooh-ing and ahh-ing until we were convinced they got exactly what they wanted...