Word: waxing
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...surprised that we were provided with metal eating utensils, including a serrated knife. If a couple of box cutters brought down the World Trade Center nearly five years ago, doesn't someone out there have any sense by now not to provide metal eating utensils to passengers? PAUL S. WAX Teaneck...
...President in American history. "For most of my working life, I was the youngest person doing whatever I was doing, then one day I woke up and I was the oldest person in the room," he told the International AIDS Conference in Toronto last week. Although he may wax nostalgic for years past, he has also been keeping an eye on his future. Ever since he left office, the former President has been on an almost non-stop energetic search for meaning in his second...
...person one. But sensitivity is not unwarranted. Among etymologists, a slur's validity hangs heavily on history. The concept of tar baby goes way back, according to Words@Random from Random House: "The tar baby is a form of a character widespread in African folklore. In various folktales, gum, wax or other sticky material is used to trap a person." The term itself was popularized by the 19th-century Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris, in which the character Br'er Fox makes a doll out of tar to ensnare his nemesis Br'er Rabbit. The Oxford American Dictionary...
...years, of the oldest subject--Madame Tussaud, who did her self-portrait in wax...
...days, of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt--daughter of Angelina and Brad--when her wax figure was presented at Madame Tussauds in New York, making her the youngest subject, at the time of a figure's unveiling, in the museum's history...