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Better dead than Red – anti-Communist slogan; Black is beautiful – political slogan of a cultural movement that began in the 1960s by African Americans; Black Lives Matter – decentralized social movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin; popularized in the United States following 2014 protests in ...
The resulting list of "100 novels that shaped our world", [1] called the "100 Most Inspiring Novels" by BBC News, [2] was published by the BBC to kick off a year of celebrating literature. [2] [3] The list triggered comments from critics and other news agencies.
With five, Humphrey Bogart is the actor with the most quotes (four from Casablanca and one from The Maltese Falcon). Al Pacino , Bette Davis , Marlon Brando , Tom Hanks , and Vivien Leigh have three apiece, while Jack Nicholson , Judy Garland , Gloria Swanson , Dustin Hoffman , Clint Eastwood , Charlton Heston , James Cagney , and Arnold ...
There are tons of other words for love and more than one way to express your deep feelings. Love is a concept as ancient as humanity itself—its essence being both universal and deeply personal ...
One hand washes the other; One kind word can warm three winter months; One man's meat is another man's poison; One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter; One man's trash is another man's treasure; One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb; One might as well throw water into the sea as to do a kindness to rogues
(A song that was the de facto anthem of the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. The lyrics of the song were attributed to, Li Youyuan, a farmer from northern Shaanxi, and the melody was from a local folk song. He allegedly got his inspiration upon seeing the rising sun in the morning of a sunny day.
many figurative senses derived from baseball, e.g. off one's base (crazy), to get to first base (esp. in neg. constr., to get a first important result); more recently (slang), a metaphor for one of three different stages in making out (q.v.) – see baseball metaphors for sex; more s.v. home run: bash
Lists of English words. Lists of collective nouns; Lists of English words by country or language of origin. Lists of English words of Celtic origin; Lists of English words of Scottish origin; Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year; Lists of pejorative terms for people; Lists of words having different meanings in American and British English