The distinction they were flogging is pretty much dead today, with "humor" being the umbrella term for everything funny, including wit.
In preparing for its upcoming exercises, the Navy has asked the National Marine Fisheries Service for approval to "take" a number of marine mammals — "take" being the broad term for everything from killing these creatures to disturbing their habits.
Walter J. Podrazik, co-author of 10 books, including "Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television," said that Chicago often stands in for "flyover country," using the slightly pejorative term for everything between the East and West Coasts.
AND so, at last, to Brussels, a city which has kindly offered up its name as a shorthand term for everything that is least popular about the European Union: waste, small-scale corruption, pettifogging bureaucracy, arrogant officialdom, impenetrable institutions.
And as America learned in Somalia, and Russia found out in Chechnya, traditional armour is not ideal for street-fighting either.To be fair, the weapons known as "land systems"—a catch-all term for everything ground armies use, from tanks to rifles are themselves becoming cleverer.
There will be a significant increase in pharmaceutical demand, particularly in the near term, for everything from lifestyle (baldness, male erectile dysfunction) to more chronic conditions (cholesterol, diabetes) to the bigger diseases (cancer, cardiovascular).
But in a bid to get our game "feature complete," which is the term for everything working even if it doesn't look pretty, Tim works well into the night, eventually crawling into bed after 4 AM.
But in a bid to get our game "feature complete", which is the term for everything working even if it doesn't look pretty, Tim works well into the night, eventually crawling into bed after 4am.
Last year, according AFRICOM commander General David Rodriguez, the U.S. military carried out a total of 546 "activities" on the continent -- a catch-all term for everything the military does in Africa.
We were OK for the next several days, until it became clear that without electrical power the pumps that pushed our "waste water" (a nice term for everything liquid from old dishpan goo to your own poo) could no longer accommodate any kind of water activity.
