Vociferating Oaths

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Sep 212004
 

This one is apparently a fan of Emily Bronte…

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Sent: Friday, May, 2004 8:15 AM
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He entered, vociferating oaths dreadful to hear; and caught me in the act of
stowi’ng his son away in the kitchen cupboard. Hareton was impressed with a
wholesome terror of encountering either his wi-ld beast’s fondness or his
madman’s rage; for in one he ran a chance of being squeezed and kissed to
death, and in the other of being flung into the fire, or dashed against the
wall; and the poor thing remained perfectly quiet wherever I chose to put
him.
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Bring me the book of the living!

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Sep 202004
 

Sent: Friday, August, 2004 7:27 PM
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bring me the book of the living!
It is savi^ng for you on dar^von, Val~ium, Via"^"gra and all the very
stuffs. It is pleasure for us to save for you.

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Girl Stops Bomb Plot Via Internet

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Sep 202004
 

Thank her parents for raising her properly as well! A good example of not being “afraid” (“afraid to act”, “afraid you’ll be embarassed if it turns out to be nothing”, etc.).

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Michigan (AP) — A boy who said on the Internet that he planned to bomb his high school was turned in by the 16-year-old daughter of a university police officer who heads a cyber crimes unit, authorities said.

Authorities credited Celia McGinty of Moscow, Idaho, with foiling a plot to bomb Chippewa Valley High School outside Detroit.

Police said a search of 17-year-old Andrew Osantowski’s home last week turned up instructions for making a bomb and videotapes of him with assault weapons.

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Helping Hand

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Aug 122004
 

A great idea... and (shockingly) it's not even being paid for with taxpayer money! (story says "a group of private companies")

The homeless in Denver will soon have free voicemail.
... The homeless who take part in the program will have their own phone number and a way to keep in touch with potential employers, case managers, family and others.
"We're confronting Denver's homelessness problem at every turn. Having a simple phone number, something most of us take for granted, can be the key to survival and self-sufficiency for people in crisis or transition. ...."

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martinet

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Jun 192004
 

n.
1. A rigid military disciplinarian.
2. One who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules.
So called from an officer of that name in the French army under Louis XIV. Cf. Martin the bird, Martlet.] In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods. [Hence, the word is commonly employed in a depreciatory sense.]

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