stewardship By the time Netscape assumed stewardship, the Open Directory Project had about 100,000 URLs indexed with contributions from about 4500 editors. ...
ineptitude The Economist remarked on the news of the errors that “for someone of Mr Levitt's iconoclasm and ingenuity, technical ineptitude is a much graver...
pith On the subject of the Wooster brain, opinions seem to diverge somewhat. Considering that I am almost constantly occupied in pondering fruity schemes of...
vizier But at the end of the twentieth twelvemonth the elder King yearned for a sight of his younger brother and felt that he must look upon him once more. So...
bonobo But killing was the reason we were in Africa. Dale Peterson and I were exploring the deep origins of human violence, back to the time before our species...
gracile The Bonobo is more gracile (slight in form) than the Common Chimpanzee. Its head is smaller than that of the Common Chimpanzee with less prominent...
etiology Venus enters the poem “sick-thoughted” with love, and hoists Adonis from the saddle of his horse. She then plies him with kisses, and arguments,...
dale “Fondling,” she saith, “since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where...
chattel An explicit aspect of Gor is that men are the rulers and women are for the most part chattel; their interactions often feature what some consider the...
booty The Ancient Greeks had many words to describe slaves, though many need to be placed in proper context to avoid ambiguity. In Homer, Hesiod and Theognis...
bevy And as he continued in this case lo! a postern of the palace, which was carefully kept private, swung open, and out of it is came twenty slave girls...
free-for-all During the Middle Ages, tournaments often contained a mêlée consisting of knights fighting one another on foot or while mounted, either divided...
persona non grata On June 30, after conducting its own investigation of the attack, the USFSA stripped Harding of her 1994 title and banned her for life from ...
cagey Lynch usually keeps his personal life out of the media or limelight and rarely comments on his films. However, he does attend public events and film...
abrogation The Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov informed Tokyo of the Soviet Union's unilateral abrogation of the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact on April 5. ...
2008-01-20 quibble The most popular career of a Greek of ability at the time was politics; hence the sophists largely concentrated on teaching rhetoric. The...
defraying In a strictly business evaluation, Biosphere 2 has to be judged a failure of management. There was never any consideration that the project could be...
2008-03-08 detritus The house dust mite, is a cosmopolitan guest in human habitation. Dust mites feed on organic detritus such as flakes of shed human skin and...
acrimonious Disemboweling is evidently the theme du jour. As the political wars rage in this amazingly acrimonious primary season, the skin has been ripped off...
Prior to winning the Nobel Prize, her work was largely unknown outside the German-speaking world and was said to resemble that of acclaimed Austrian playwright...
2008-05-12 foist The highlighting faces are my own choices, because I felt it was important for me to foist my personal style choices on the general public. ...
2008-05-18 albatross Is Hillary Clinton the saviour of feminism? Or its albatross, dragging feminism backwards under a weary weight of old-guard victimology...
adjudicate In the bet Winer asserts, “In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 02007, weblogs will rank...
capsize Trimarans are popular with many sailors for their stability; however, if capsized (for example by a rogue wave), they are virtually impossible to...
2008-05-26 kerfuffle We have recently resolved Bet 117 on Long Bets about the adjusted cost of energy. It was an interesting case where we had very specific ...
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