WILLIAM SAFIRE-Frontline

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Snoopspeak

THE eaves of your house are the edges of the roof that jut out and allow the rain to run off without soaking the outer walls. The space of ground belo

Over the top

Over the top, derived from First World War trench-warfare usage, has replaced way out of line as a derogation of excess.

Flip-flop and futzing around

THE G.O.P. knock on John Kerry, the Democratic nominee presumptive, is that he flip-flops. The senator's defenders counter that his stands are nuanced

Outsource, and the urge to insource

"OUTSOURCING has become a national dirty word,'' reports National Journal's Congress Daily.

Unipolar, bipolar and multipolar

JACQUES "CHIRAC had stopped using the expression `multipolar world'," Elaine Sciolino of The New York Times wrote from Paris, reporting that some seni

Rewarding ripe, resonant rhetoric

AS vicars of vacillation do their pusillanimous pussyfooting, this department now institutes the Agnew Annual Alliteration Awards (A.A.A.A. _ "the Agg

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