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exsanguination
Main Entry:
ex·san·gui·na·tion
Pronunciation:
\(ˌ)ek(s)-ˌsaŋ-gwə-ˈnā-shən\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Latin exsanguinatus drained of blood
Date:
circa 1909
: the action or process of draining or losing blood
ex·san·gui·na·tion
Pronunciation:
\(ˌ)ek(s)-ˌsaŋ-gwə-ˈnā-shən\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Latin exsanguinatus drained of blood
Date:
circa 1909
: the action or process of draining or losing blood
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Feb 27
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Feb 18
“ I felt like I had been thrown into some surreal sort of nightmare,” said Hillary, 17, who was sentenced in 2007. “All I wanted to know was how this could be fair and why the judge would do such a thing.” The answers became a bit clearer on Thursday as the judge, Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., and a colleague, Michael T. Conahan, appeared in federal court in Scranton, Pa., to plead guilty to wire fraud and income tax fraud for taking more than $2.6 million in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers run by PA Child Care and a sister company, Western PA Child Care.
Feb 06
“ So what should Mr. Obama do? Count me among those who think that the president made a big mistake in his initial approach, that his attempts to transcend partisanship ended up empowering politicians who take their marching orders from Rush Limbaugh. What matters now, however, is what he does next. It’s time for Mr. Obama to go on the offensive. Above all, he must not shy away from pointing out that those who stand in the way of his plan, in the name of a discredited economic philosophy, are putting the nation’s future at risk. The American economy is on the edge of catastrophe, and much of the Republican Party is trying to push it over that edge.
“ The US swimmer Michael Phelps has been suspended from competition for three months after photographs were published appearing to show him smoking cannabis. USA Swimming, the sport’s governing body in the US, said no “anti-doping rule” had been violated. But the federation said it wanted to send a strong message to Phelps because he had disappointed so many people.
— Hilarious!! BBC NEWS | Americas | Phelps suspended over ‘pot pipe’
Feb 05
“ The report by the National Academy of Sciences is to be released this month. People who have seen it say it is a sweeping critique of many forensic methods that the police and prosecutors rely on, including fingerprinting, firearms identification and analysis of bite marks, blood spatter, hair and handwriting. The report says such analyses are often handled by poorly trained technicians who then exaggerate the accuracy of their methods in court. It concludes that Congress should create a federal agency to guarantee the independence of the field, which has been dominated by law enforcement agencies, say forensic professionals, scholars and scientists who have seen review copies of the study. Early reviewers said the report was still subject to change.
Feb 01
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“ The Americanisms are so much more concise and vivid. Instead of saying “sorry we’re late but drivers ahead of us slowed us down when they craned their necks to look at a crash” you can say “we were held up by rubberneckers”. Words pop in and out of our language as social conditions change. The American gangster, which is still with us, has been around as a noun and a reality since 1896 according to my Shorter Oxford, but it seems to have dropped another Americanism from the 1930s and I think now is the time to revive it. The word is bankster, derived by a marriage of banker and gangster.
