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| Thousands protest austerity measures Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:52:25 EST Thousands of people marched through the Greek capital Thursday as part of a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest further austerity measures by the embattled government. |
| BA employee faces terrorism charges Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:22:16 EST A British Airways employee appeared in court Thursday on charges related to terrorism. |
| British journalist freed in Gaza Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:22:38 EST British journalist Paul Martin was free Thursday and on his way to Israel after his arrest by Hamas in Gaza a month ago. |
| Football: Defeated Real Madrid back coach Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:10:44 EST Beleaguered Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini has received a vote of confidence for the club's director-general Jorge Valdano despite their disastrous Champions League exit to Lyon on Wednesday night. |
| Manchester United bidders appoint top bank Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:37:41 EST The group poised to launch a takeover bid for English Premier League side Manchester United has signaled its intent by appointing a major international bank to act as its financial adviser. |
| 100 firefighters battle London blaze Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:52:22 EST A hundred firefighters and 25 fire engines were at the scene of an early-morning fire over four floors of a building in East London, a London Fire Brigade spokesman said Thursday. |
| Trump presses on with $1B Scottish golf course Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:24:44 EST Despite the financial downturn affecting property prices and construction projects around the world, bullish American billionaire Donald Trump remains committed to building what he has dubbed the "world's greatest golf course" in Scotland after unveiling designs for the new complex. |
| Aid worker snatched by al Qaeda freed Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:38:59 EST A Spanish aid worker kidnapped by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) last November in Mauritania has been freed unharmed, but the group continues to hold two other Spanish aid workers. |
| UK councils ordered to quit the jargon Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:15:14 EST Hundreds of words and phrases have been added to a jargon "blacklist" in an effort to make Britain's public sector services less confusing. |
| Abuse claims hit German Catholic church Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:52:35 EST Norbert Denef speaks to CNN about the sexual crimes committed against him during his childhood in Germany. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 11, 2010 is:
will-o'-the-wisp • \will-uh-thuh-WISP\ • noun
1 : a light that appears at night over marshy ground *2 : a misleading or elusive goal or hope
Example sentence:
Though her friends think she's chasing a will-o'-the-wisp, Alexis is determined to quit her job and follow her dream of becoming a pop music star.
Did you know?
The will-o'-the-wisp is a flame-like phosphorescence caused by gases from decaying plants in marshy areas. In olden days, it was personified as "Will with the wisp," a sprite who carried a fleeting "wisp" of light. Foolish travelers were said to try to follow the light and were then led astray into the marsh. (An 18th-century fairy tale described Will as one "who bears the wispy fire to trail the swains among the mire.") The light was first known, and still also is, as "Ignis Fatuus," which in Latin means "foolish fire." Eventually, the name "will-o'-the-wisp" was extended to any impractical or unattainable goal.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.