When at its founding in 1951, the Action Group as a new political party sought relevance among the populace of the Western ...

Shut’ can be described as a fertile verb based on the number of phrasal verbs it procreated. Among such are shut down, shut out, shut in and shut up. Of the four, ‘shut up’ is usually derogatory when ...

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American soldiers in Vietnam communicated using so much slang and shorthand that it almost seems like its own English dialect. Their language, often both flippant and matter-of-fact, sheds light on ...

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The NBA just can't settle on an All-Star format. The Elam Ending came and went. The East vs. West format has been axed twice now with a player draft held in between those two runs. This season ...

Compound modifiers can be adverbs, too. Often, these compound adverbs come after the verb: She works part-time. And because ...

Tapping your fingers to a rhythm before you enter a noisy room might seem like a strange ritual. But recent research reveals ...

Alice Cooper’s three kids have all performed onstage with him Nicole Briese is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in Us ...

His sisters are all equally accomplished, with careers spanning the industries of technology, media and academia and accolades ranging from Tony Awards to spots on the Forbes 30 Under 30.