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DEFINITION nak-ba n: an Arabic word meaning disaster or catastrophe that Palestinians use as shorthand to refer to the time just before and after the creation of the state of Israel, in which approximately 700,000 Palestinian refugees were displaced...
...know how Roger feels about this, but it makes me uncomfortable to think that, of all the millions of words he has written and spoken, the one most associated with him is "thumb." As in his and his TV partners' shorthand for a favorable review, "two thumbs up!" This tactic is handy for branding the show, and an effective marketing tool (it's the words all movie publicists want to banner at the top of their ads), but as critical discourse the slogan has its limits. More Manichaean than the star rating system he and other newspaper critics...
...protests-or at least they were, until the recent enactment of a ban on any public gatherings of more than five people. The battered 1994 Mitsubishi Pajero that the Chief Justice uses for his journeys outside the city has become a national icon, its number plate, LOH 3, shorthand for a nationwide debate on the role of the military in government...
...Putin equated Russia's "traditional confessions" to its nuclear shield, both, he said, being "components that strengthen Russian statehood and create necessary preconditions for internal and external security of the country." Professor Sergei Filatov, a top authority on Russian religious affairs notes that "traditional confessions" is the state's shorthand for the Russian Orthodox Church...
...Award-winning, Nobel Prize-nominated environmental prophet with an army of followers and huge reserves of political and cultural capital at his command. There's only one problem. The former Vice President just doesn't seem interested. He says he has "fallen out of love with politics," which is shorthand for both his general disgust with the process and the pain he still feels over the hard blow of the 2000 election, when he became only the fourth man in U.S. history to win the popular vote but lose a presidential election. In the face of wrenching disappointment, he showed...