Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chienlit is derived from a three-word phrase, chie en lit, which means literally "crap in bed." As a compound word, however, the term has acquired a somewhat more generalized and sanitary connotation. When preceded by the feminine article la, the term connotes messing about or stirring up a carnival. But when used with the masculine article le, the term is more vulgar, denoting one who soils his bed or goes about with a dirty shirttail hanging out. By omitting the article, De Gaulle left his meaning purposefully ambiguous. As a rejoinder to the general, rebellious students and workers have...
...always in the tiny tropical police state, official details of the raid-such as it was-were soon clouded in confusion, contradiction and half-truths. But one thing was certain: the invaders, in their clumsy way, meant business. Before word of the bombing reached the north, the commander of the Cap Haitien garrison drove out to the airport to investigate the landings and ran into a hail of bullets; he was seriously wounded and two aides with him were killed...
...high-frequency radio signals every 1.3 seconds, but also gives off light flashes just about half as often. The conferees were beginning to ponder this new information when a tardy University of California astronomer, David Cudaback, still bleary-eyed from long nights at the Lick Observatory, arrived with word that the light flashes are inexplicably irregular: they speed up or slow down by as much...
...born.* Panelists are on their honor to disqualify themselves if they know the birth date of a guest. The questions run from "Do you like money?" to "What one thing would you change about your husband?" The answers are generally guarded. Asked to describe themselves in a word or two, Guests Ed Sullivan and Jack Benny coyly hazarded "nice." After the first couple of shows, Johnny Carson, whose wife Joanne is a regular panelist, suggested that she make the questioning less nice and more pungent...
...something out of them, but who is not struggling for his next week's salary. I think that the criticism that is leveled against people like me is a valid one: We are privileged; if we don't know it, we are living in sin--I use the word...