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| Turkey protests Swedish genocide vote Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:05:50 EST Turkey has canceled a high-level summit in protest against a Swedish Parliament resolution recognizing the 1915 killings of ethnic Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide. |
| BA cabin crew to strike this month Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:47:35 EST Union members representing British Airways cabin crews announced Friday they will hold two separate strikes this month in a dispute over working conditions. |
| Thousands protest Greek austerity measures Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:10:15 EST Thousands of people marched through Athens Thursday as part of a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest further austerity measures by the embattled government. |
| Islamic scholar 'not afraid' over fatwa Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:34:41 EST The Islamic scholar who issued a powerful fatwa, or religious ruling, against terrorism and suicide bombers said Thursday that he was not afraid of reprisals from his enemies and did not fear for his life. |
| BA employee faces terrorism charges Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:47:03 EST A British Airways employee appeared in court Thursday on charges related to terrorism. |
| British journalist freed in Gaza Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:22:38 EST British journalist Paul Martin was free Thursday and on his way to Israel after his arrest by Hamas in Gaza a month ago. |
| Football: Defeated Real Madrid back coach Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:10:44 EST Beleaguered Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini has received a vote of confidence for the club's director-general Jorge Valdano despite their disastrous Champions League exit to Lyon on Wednesday night. |
| Manchester United bidders appoint top bank Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:37:41 EST The group poised to launch a takeover bid for English Premier League side Manchester United has signaled its intent by appointing a major international bank to act as its financial adviser. |
| 100 firefighters battle London blaze Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:52:22 EST A hundred firefighters and 25 fire engines were at the scene of an early-morning fire over four floors of a building in East London, a London Fire Brigade spokesman said Thursday. |
| Trump presses on with $1B Scottish golf course Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:51:19 EST Despite the financial downturn affecting property prices and construction projects around the world, bullish American billionaire Donald Trump remains committed to building what he has dubbed the "world's greatest golf course" in Scotland after unveiling designs for the new complex. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 12, 2010 is:
sub rosa • \sub-ROH-zuh\ • adverb
: in confidence : secretly
Example sentence:
The private investigator met sub rosa with his client to show her photos of her husband rendezvousing at various local establishments with another woman.
Did you know?
"Sub rosa" literally means "under the rose" in New Latin. Since ancient times, the rose has often been associated with secrecy. In ancient mythology, Cupid gave a rose to Harpocrates, the god of silence, to keep him from telling about the indiscretions of Venus. Ceilings of dining rooms have been decorated with carvings of roses, reportedly to remind guests that what was said at the table should be kept confidential. Roses have also been placed over confessionals as a symbol of the confidentiality of confession. "Sub rosa" entered the English language in the 17th century, and even before then, people were using the English version, "under the rose." Earlier still, "unter der Rose" was apparently used in Germany, where the phrase is thought to have originated.