old doll n.— «Ms. Clark, 56, is a “sustainer,” in league parlance, meaning she has moved to an advisory position. “I’m an old doll. They need us,” she says of the league’s “active” members, the roughly...
laughing room n.— «Let me put it another way: unless Times editors have overcome several decades of their own inertia, readers on Tuesday will find a prominent story serving the pecuniary interests of three privately controlled companies...
food insecurity n.— «In the past, the concept of food security could never become a cultural value, because food insecurity was then the norm. Only more recently, since it has been shown that enough food could be produced to satisfy all...