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...days the Peruvian authorities charged McNamara with the murder of two government officials who were killed in a 1987 Sendero Luminoso attack near the Andean town of Vilcashuaman. The evidence against her was flimsy: the two survivors of the assault said it was led by a tall gringa, local slang for any non-Indian woman from the Peruvian coast. Both victims met McNamara and said she was not the killer, but to no avail. Though McNamara claimed she was in Puquio, a town more than 200 miles away, when the murders occurred, records from the hotel where she had been...
Organizers chose the name Snit, defined in the American Heritage Dictionary as slang for "a state of agitation or irritation," because "we thought it was a nice word," said Cohen, adding that the magazine will eventually come out quarterly but only twice this year...
Everyone in her neighborhood is also "mushes," the slang word for dog racing. "I know all the names of the dogs in the neighborhood. It's the only real topic of conversation," Butcher says...
...streets of Washington, "Hinckley" is slang for PCP: the drug is so mind bending that the user can end up in St. Elizabeths, the local psychiatric hospital where John Hinckley Jr. was sent after shooting Ronald Reagan in 1981. The hospital has tried to treat its notorious inmate like any other patient. But the futility of that became apparent when St. Elizabeths, maintaining that Hinckley's condition has improved, recommended that a judge allow him to leave for a one-day unescorted visit with his parents over Easter...
...through a little miracle surgery; Chekov (Walter Koenig), the Russian, has to explain his way out of an American nuclear submarine; Scotty (James Doohan) brings postmodern plastics to Marin County. And Spock, wandering around Golden Gate Park in a Vulcan bathrobe and proving his ineptness with the local slang, must be passed off as a casualty of the '60s free-speech movement. "He did a little too much LDS," Kirk explains helpfully...