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Word of the Day for Sunday, June 26, 2011sirocco \suh-ROK-oh\, noun: 1. Any hot, oppressive wind, especially one in the warm sector of a cyclone. The winter, with its cutting tramontana and sultry sirocco days, we spent in the eternal city, taking rooms of an old woman who had a flat with stone floors and straw chairs in the via Torre Argentina. The sirocco had burnt into my very soul, and I bowed my head and submitted without groaning, after a while-and now wait for the hour when the grass, if not the laurels, will whisper over me. Sirocco enters English from the Italian scirocco, which in turn derives from the Arabic sharq, literally meaning "east." | |||||||||
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  Do names prejudice how others perceive your status? A study suggests yesAre you a Samuel or a Travis, a Katherine or an Amber? According to a recent study conducted on 89 undergraduate students, a person's socioeconomic and educational standing may be in direct correlation with a person's name. While researchers point out that a person's essence, status, and general fatecannot possibly be defined based on the... | |||||||||
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