Mouthful of hooey. .In your Editor's Note "A Drumbeat of Fear" (April issue), you observe Bush's use of an odd phrase, "We thought oceans would protect us." Bizarre and erroneous, indeed. Your response to Bush's strange howler is the first I've seen. How sad that Bush has somehow reduced the tragedy of 9/11 to this spectacular noninterpretation, this mouthful of hooey hoo·ey n. Slang Nonsense: "the romantic hooey that always sold women's cosmetics" Jerry Adler. [Origin unknown. steeped in brain-jolting nonsense. Thank you for zapping the President's witless wit·less adj. Lacking intelligence or wit; foolish. wit  less·ly adv.wit promulgation PROMULGATION. The order given to cause a law to be executed, and to make it public it differs from publication. (q.v.) 1 Bl. Com. 45; Stat. 6 H. VI., c. 4. 2. of hokum. Kenneth Graham Columbia, South Carolina Columbia is the state capital and largest city of South Carolina. As of 2006, estimates for the population of the city proper is 122,819[1]. Columbia is the county seat of Richland County, but a small portion of the city extends into Lexington County. |
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