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Word for the Day, Monday, March 3, 2014-- salvo
3/3/14 | xs

Posted on 03/03/2014 4:30:57 AM PST by xsmommy

Word For The Day, Monday, March 3, 2014 – salvo


In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

salvo; noun •

Etymology:
1. a. a simultaneous discharge of two or more guns in military action or as a salute b : the release all at one time of a rack of bombs or rockets (as from an airplane) c : a series of shots by an artillery battery with each gun firing one round in turn after a prescribed interval d : the bombs or projectiles released in a salvo 2 : something suggestive of a salvo: as a : a sudden burst b : a spirited attack •

1635–45; < Latin salvō, ablative of salvus safe, found in legal phrases The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....




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Putin denies this is an opening salvo in a war of soviet aggression, no, he's PROTECTING ethnic Russians in the Crimea. oh ok, then.
1 posted on 03/03/2014 4:30:57 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: Fierce Allegiance; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; NeoCaveman; ...

can someone please ping with an up to date ping list? i am homebound with snow again.


2 posted on 03/03/2014 4:32:05 AM PST by xsmommy
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Opening class early today! Salvos of congratulations for John Ridley’s Oscar win for “12 Years A Slave” should be resounding locally since he was raised in this suburb and graduated from the local high school. (His daddy was a highly successful eye surgeon. John was not deprived of ANYHING in his childhood.) Guess I’ll have to go see this movie now.


3 posted on 03/03/2014 4:38:19 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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have been awake since 5:30 am EST bc the dang plow came through the cul de sac! only a few inches so far but it is supposedly going to snow an inch an hour until early afternoon. xshub flew out to NYC yesterday afternoon, figuring he could not get there today. xsfiance is supposed to head to Miami for a conference and his Mon AM flight was canceled yesterday, and he rebooked for 6:45 this evening. work and school was canceled as of 7pm last night, but i was awakened by the plow so no sleeping in for me!


4 posted on 03/03/2014 4:45:23 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: Fierce Allegiance; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; NeoCaveman; ...

ping


5 posted on 03/03/2014 4:46:31 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy

We got lucky with this one. About 4 inches of snow yesterday, but then no more. I shoveled the driveway about 3 PM yesterday and was figuring to have to do it again. But I didn’t.


6 posted on 03/03/2014 4:48:24 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

yeah, i don’t think we are going to be lucky.


7 posted on 03/03/2014 4:51:12 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave
Tiger has been withdrawing from tournaments lately, i think he knows his time has passed.
8 posted on 03/03/2014 4:53:07 AM PST by xsmommy
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Good Morning.

What this is about, is securing the ports for the Black Sea Fleet, prior to the arrival of it’s 6 new stealth subs, in 2015....

Oddly, given Putin’s argument...why didn’t our brilliant and esoteric Sec.of State, compare that to Hitler and the Sudetenland ‘38 ?

Instead, he goes on Nat’l T.V. And states that this is not a Zero Sum equation, retreating from what should have been an opening bargaining position.

Past, it would seem is prologue.


9 posted on 03/03/2014 5:05:42 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"yo)
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and we have morons at the helm.


10 posted on 03/03/2014 5:12:38 AM PST by xsmommy
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Kerry will secure “Peace in our time”

And fwiw..I don’t believe they are morons. I believe they are actively undermining U.S. National Security interests.

Every foreign policy decision, has resulted in steps toward that end.

Prematurely leaving Iraq, now Afghanistan.

Trying to circumvent Gitmo.

Allowing Assad to remain.

Allowing Egypt to explode.

Trying to keep Iranian Nuke scientists alive from the Mossad

Allowing Iran to keep on truckin with it’s nuke program,

Now allowing Putin to take total control of his only warm weather, and Atlantic port.

Isolating Israel.

One or two, os moronic, in total, it’s treasonous complicity, in furthering a new Soviet inspired Axis of Evil.


11 posted on 03/03/2014 5:22:17 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"yo)
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Rubio is the only counterweight i have heard thus far.


12 posted on 03/03/2014 5:27:59 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

weren’t you in favor of partition of Ukraine last week? Putin has the same idea.


13 posted on 03/03/2014 5:29:10 AM PST by xsmommy
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I think we can depend on 0bama and crew to salvo the problems we face.


14 posted on 03/03/2014 5:32:46 AM PST by NicknamedBob (My cleverness often has to be severely constrained in order to fit in a tagl)
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I don’t know about being in favor or not, but I did say it looked like a likely outcome.


15 posted on 03/03/2014 5:34:04 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

or an excuse for Putin to get his nose in there.


16 posted on 03/03/2014 5:39:21 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave
pretty strong from the WaPo.
17 posted on 03/03/2014 5:40:17 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: NicknamedBob

yes it’s a solving salvo. A++


18 posted on 03/03/2014 5:40:39 AM PST by xsmommy
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i am homebound with snow again.

Sounds like a great opportunity for an all-day paczki making marathon.

19 posted on 03/03/2014 5:58:14 AM PST by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: SoothingDave

End of last week, we were in the 12-18 inch target zone, our crews were told to be on standby to put heavy equipment up on the highways. Glad it went elsewhere, I’m sick of the fish having a roof over them this winter. I don’t ice fish.


20 posted on 03/03/2014 6:02:16 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss you, dad.)
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