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Word of the Day for Friday, March 18, 2011truckle \TRUHK-uhl\, intransitive verb: 1. To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to act in a subservient manner. noun: Only where there was a "defiance," a "refusal to truckle," a "distrust of all authority," they believed, would institutions "express human aspirations, not crush them." The son struggled to be obedient to the conventional, commercial values of the father and, at the same time, to maintain his own playful, creative innocence. This conflict could make him truckle in the face of power. I am convinced that, broadly speaking, the audience must accept the piece on my own terms; that it is fatal to truckle to what one conceives to be popular taste. Truckle is from truckle in truckle bed (a low bed on wheels that may be pushed under another bed; also called a trundle bed), in reference to the fact that the truckle bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master. The ultimate source of the word is Greek trokhos, "a wheel." | |||||||||
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  Why spelling in Irish (Gaelic) looks so familiar, yet unfamiliarMarch 17th is St. Patrick's Day, or L� Fh�ile P�draig (Irish), named for one of the most recognized of the patron saints of Ireland, Saint Patrick, who died on this date around 493 A.D. While St. Patrick is famous for allegedly driving snakes out of Ireland, he is also responsible for the oldest known Gaelic... | |||||||||
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