Memorial Day good wishes to you and the remembered. Here's another newsletter from "A Way with Words." Did you miss us? There was no newsletter last week, so now we have two brand-spanking-new episodes to share. This past...
DT n.— «Court documents allege Carter asked Lyons to “go look for DTs,” which is a street term for detectives, in the moments before the shooting. Lyons went down the street, then came back and reported he didn’t see any.» —“Second...
bullet sponge n.— «Fighting in there “is going to be chaotic,” he said. There’ll be lots of ricochets, concussions, shrapnel, and nowhere to crawl in retreat. “The first guy is going to go down.…He’s going to be a...
teardown n.— «A million-dollar “teardown,” real estate parlance for buying a home for the land or the view, is a new thing in Tacoma.» —“New owner bulldozes 1925 mansion” by Barbara Clements News Tribune (Tacoma...
pancaking n.— «Utilities, for example, can be hit with multiple charges when they buy power transmitted over multiple systems, a practice known as “pancaking.”» —“Grid West is wrong plan for NW power system” News...
hey you order n.— «As the planned one-hour mission dragged into a second hour, the soldiers piled into their Strykers and headed back to base for lunch. They said they have another name for fragos—they call them “hey, you”...