Word: verbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...again, leaving the television booth and a lucrative contract as an analyst of N.F.L. games for NBC. To the surprise of many, perhaps even himself, he took a pay cut to $150,000 a year (plus fringes) to become head coach at a school where athletes can conjugate a verb, carry on a conversation and occasionally play a little football. Walsh described the feeling upon his return home to a campus where he last coached 14 years ago as one of unmitigated "bliss...
...compilation of slang and jargon; but it makes no pretense at distinguishing between the useful and the awful. Where the fourth edition labels slang as such, the fifth prefers "nonformal," an ambiguous term at best. The innocent "flaky" is nonformal -- but so is the vulgar "screw." The Black English verb "dis" (short for disrespect) is nonformal; so is "deep doo-doo," slang for predicament. What is even more puzzling is Roget's failure to draw distinctions between the "nonformal" and the downright unacceptable. The fourth cites certain words as derogatory; the fifth does not. It lists such pejoratives as "spade...
...amateur again. Why should he, suddenly mortal, risk his health to play in the Olympics? Why should we race off to watch him play in Barcelona? Because the root of the word amateur -- still the heart of the Games, even in these professional times -- is the first Latin verb that every student learns: amo, or "I love...
Students and faculty send e-mail--called "Blitzmail" on the Hanover. N.H. campus--to each other very easily. In fact, the practice has become so popular that " 'Blitz' has become a verb at Dartmouth," says Lawrence M. Levine, director of Dartmouth's computing services...
...Hong Kong is not just a noun, its regulars insist. "`Kong' is definitely a verb, `to Kong,'" says Scocca...