Word: window
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gloating was inevitable, from the bad jokes making the rounds in San Francisco's financial district (What do you call a 28-year-old trader in suspenders? Hey, waiter!) to the hand-lettered sign in the window of Cafe Chameleon, a Manhattan nightclub: SO YOUR BROKER'S A LITTLE BROKER? Says Edward Singer, 62, a Portland, Ore., broker: "These younger money managers had become godlike in giving advice...
...additions are the result of old words taking on altered meanings. RHD-II includes 75,000 new definitions reflecting this process. Where a mole . in 1966 was mainly an animal, now it is also, thanks to John le Carre, a spy who burrows into the enemy's bureaucracy. A window is not only something to gaze out but also an interval during which rockets can be launched or any opportunity seized. And in addition to all its other 1966 meanings, like has become an interjection, breaking out like acne all over adolescent speech, as in, "It's, like, ubiquitous...
...student was injured last Saturday after he was pushed from a second-story window in a drunken brawl...
...student was pushed through the window of Baker House, a student dormitory, during a confrontation with a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity early Saturday morning, according to The Tech. The incident followed on the heels of a drinking contest at a private Oktoberfest party...
During the fight, the Baker resident was punched so hard that he fell backwards through the window. Baker House hopes to ban the fraternity brother who delivered the punch from its premises...