President Obama, calling on all Americans to get at least an additional year of school or training beyond high school, has uttered a term that many were shocked to hear a president of recent times say: "vocational education".
If she decides at this point to take notice of you, it is optional at this point to utter an affectionate term from a list of options: Babe, Honey, Buttercup or Beautiful.
The "Forlorn Hope" isn't "a poetic nickname that captured the moment's utter desperation," but a term derived from Dutch meaning the "lost troop".
Evra claimed on the French television station Canal Plus that Suárez uttered a racist term at least 10 times to him in a match.
"Your body/dress/hair is sick" was a term uttered several times by American TV presenters to female celebrities and, judging from the reaction of the latter, this is now a compliment.
His favored strategy to undermine the public sector is not to offer reasoned arguments against government spending, but to demean public employees as "hacks," a term he utters contemptuously and repeatedly on the radio and in his columns.
Hollywood films generate emotion in predictable ways: by having a man voice long-unspoken admiration ("Good Will Hunting," "Million Dollar Baby"), having a woman utter a deathbed avowal ("Love Story," "Terms of Endearment"), or killing the dog (everything from "The Road Warrior" to "Marley & Me").
As Dan Glaister has already commented, US politicos have to come up with another name for the day they have dubbed "Super Duper Tuesday", a term that when uttered will turn serious political commentators into Disney characters on speed.
Butoh is a term shortened from "ankoko butoh," which means "dance of utter darkness".
A pleasant dinner shared by a young man's home-town friends (white) and school chums (black) is set ablaze when a white girl utters the term "ghetto" as a gesture of solidarity.
