baroque, woo, moxie, mum (SECRET), Stayed Mum on Classified Documents. President Biden Says U.S. Is Considering Dropping Case Against Assange

President Biden Says U.S. Is Considering Dropping Case Against Assange

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has been battling extradition to the U.S. from London on charges related to his publication of classified documents.

68 Days of Silence: Why the White House Stayed Mum on Classified Documents

Advisers to President Biden calculated that the Justice Department would view possession of the documents as little more than a good-faith mistake.

Many of the top ones combine the same game show/reality TV elements, in increasingly baroque combinations: participants who jostle for viewers' affection by singing, cooking, having sex, eating grubs, etc; presenters and pantomime judges to oversee their humiliation; and premium-rate voting by the audience to determine the winners.




Norway's Think Global plans to sell a small electric car in the U.S. with the help of U.S. venture capitalists, evidence that the race to woo American consumers with electric cars is heating up.
Brand-Name Food Makers Woo Retailers With Displays


The retailer is about to find out how many men are left in New York with the money, and the moxie, to pay more than $7,000 for an off-the-rack suit, or as much as $21,025 for the made-to-order version.

Published: December 26, 2008

“The first observation that one must make about the new CBS headquarters,” Ada Louise Huxtable wrote in 1966, “is that it is a building.”

Eddie Hausner/The New York Times (1965)

Black Rock: The CBS building, by Eero Saarinen.

It takes a lot of moxie to open a piece of serious criticism with such a lofty declaration of the obvious, offered in praise, without sarcasm or irony. But then Huxtable, who was the architecture critic for The New York Times from 1963 to 1982 and still, at 87, tosses out the occasional bravura essay for The Wall Street Journal, has never lacked nerve.



Circuit City CEO Mum on Buyout
Circuit City stayed mum at its annual meeting about whether a buyout is in the future for the retailer, but an activist investor expects an announcement of a possible sale within the next month.

• mum (SECRET)

adj.
Not verbalizing; silent.
interj.
Used as a command to stop speaking.

idiom:

mum's the word

1. Say nothing of the secret you know: Mum's the word on the surprise party.

[Middle English, perhaps imitative of closing one's lips.]

mum² (mŭm) 
intr.v., mummed, mum·ming, mums.

1. To act or play in a pantomime.
2. To go merrymaking in a mask or disguise especially during a festival.

[Middle English mummen, from Old French momer, to wear a mask.]

WordNet: moxie
Meaning #1: (informal) fortitude and determination
Synonyms: backbone, grit, guts, sand, gumption

moxie
n. Slang.

1. The ability to face difficulty with spirit and courage.
2. Aggressive energy; initiative: “His prose has moxie, though it rushes and stumbles from a pent-up surge” (Patricia Hampl).
3. Skill; know-how.

Moxie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Moxie was created in 1876 by Dr. Augustin Thompson, formerly of Union, Maine,
while he was employed by the Ayer Drug Company in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Accordingly, Moxie stands today as Maine's state beverage. Moxie was first
marketed ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie

[From Moxie, trademark for a soft drink.]

woo
verb [T] wooing, wooed, wooed
1 to try to persuade someone to support you or to use your business:
The party has been trying to woo the voters with promises of electoral reform.
The airline has been offering discounted tickets to woo passengers away from their competitors.

2 OLD-FASHIONED If a man woos a woman, he gives her a lot of attention in an attempt to persuade her to marry him:
He wooed her for months with flowers and expensive presents.

wooer 

noun [C]



baroque
adjective
relating to the heavily decorated style in buildings, art and music that was popular in Europe in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th century:
baroque architecture/painters