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Word of the Day for Friday, July 9, 2010tantivy \tan-TIV-ee\, adjective: 1. Swift; rapid. adverb: noun: interjection: The passage of wild pigeons from this wood to that-with their slight tantivy-and carrier haste- Now from under some rotten stump your hoe turns up a spotted salamander- your own contemporary- A small trace of Egypt and the Nile in New England- Where is the priest of Isis. How does it come that a few short hours later we find him galloping tantivy over the dusty hills, no less than two hundred miles, as the birds fly, from the counter railings of welcomings? Tantivy, while associated with many aspects of horseback riding, is of unknown origin. | |||||||||
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  What does manslaughter mean, and how is it different from murder?The jury in the murder trial of former�BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserler returned a verdict of involuntary manslaughter today. How can a person cause the death of another without the act being considered a murder? In the universe of legalese, words can perform in unusual ways. Manslaughter, simply defined, is "the unlawful killing of a�human being... | |||||||||
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