The general went out to find that none of his GIs were there. One finally ran up, panting heavily.
"Sorry, sir! I can explain, you see I had a date and it ran a little late. I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but it broke down, found a farm, bought a horse but it dropped dead, ran 10 miles, and now I"m here."
The general was very skeptical about this explanation but at least he was here so he let the G.I. go.
Moments later, eight more GIs came up to the general panting, he asked them why they were late.
"Sorry, sir! I had a date and it ran a little late, I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but it broke down, found a farm, bought a horse but it dropped dead, ran 10 miles, and now I"m here."
The general eyed them, feeling very skeptical but since he let the first guy go, he let them go, too.
A ninth GI jogged up to the general, panting heavily. "Sorry, sir! I had a date and it ran a little late, I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but..."
"Let me guess," the general interrupted, "it broke down."
"No," said the G.I., "there were so many dead horses in the road, it took forever to get around them."
n. Colloq. Light refreshment taken at about 11 a.m.
- n. Colloq. Light refreshment taken at about 11 a.m.
ELIMINATE
v. (-ting) 1 remove, get rid of.
- exclude from consideration.
- exclude from a further stage of a competition through defeat etc. elimination n. Eliminator n. [latin limen limin- threshold] (-ting) 1 remove, get rid of.
- exclude from consideration.
- exclude from a further stage of a competition through defeat etc. elimination n. Eliminator n. [latin limen limin- threshold]
ELLIPSOID
n. Solid of which all the plane sections through one axis are circles and all the other plane sections are ellipses.
ELOCUTION
n. Art of clear and expressive speech. [latin loquor speak]
ELOQUENCE
n. Fluent and effective use of language. [latin loquor speak]
ELSEWHERE
adv. In or to some other place.
ELUCIDATE
v. (-ting) throw light on; explain. elucidation n. Elucidatory adj. [latin: related to *lucid]
EMBARRASS
v. - make (a person) feel awkward or ashamed.
- (as embarrassed adj.) Encumbered with debts.
- encumber. embarrassment n. [italian imbarrare bar in]
EMBATTLED
adj. - prepared or arrayed for battle.
- fortified with battlements.
- under heavy attack or in trying circumstances.
EMBELLISH
v. - beautify, adorn.
- enhance with fictitious additions. embellishment n. [french bel, *beau]
