S-word

• “All we are asking for, what the government is asking for, is a few channels where... they are not going to hear the S-word, the F-word.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Justices Voice Support for Broadcast-TV Decency

• “Last week people here were calling stability 'the S-word,' since stability in the geo-strategic sense has amounted to deterioration of life for most Egyptians.”

  The Huffington Post: Obama's Restraint Doctrine: How The President's Egypt Policy Has Managed To Please No One At All

• “The changes, which consist of replacing all but one F-word with the S-word, were made with the full approval of the film's three producers and its director Tom Hooper, said David Glasser, chief operating officer of Weinstein Co. The company says it made the edits so more young people can view the film, which is hardly smutty.”

  The Wall Street Journal: An HBO Documentary on Hollywood's Jerry Wintraub

• “He also praised congressional Republicans for finally using "the S-word.”

  The Huffington Post: Eric Alterman: Think Again: Chiller, Socialist Theater

• “Levin appeared to relish the opportunity to carpet bomb the committee room with the S-word, repeating the swear with increasing bravado.”

  The Huffington Post: HUFFPOST HILL: APRIL 27, 2010

• “The polite language here is that the government is stonewalling on the S-word.”

  2008 January 28 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous

• “It even got a little scary Friday when the president started to talk of "stimulating" growth and jobs -- dangerously close to the S-word itself.”

  The Washington Post: Why Obama won't use the word 'stimulus'

• “Brown has finally uttered the S-word over Smeargate.”

  Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me

• “But with the S-word being bandied about so frequently, he apparently thought he better take the question more seriously -- so he called the New York Times personally to defend himself:”

  The Return of Socialism?

• “Hannity, who hates to pass up an opportunity to advance GOP talking points, has even applauded congressional Republicans for finally using the "S-word.”

  Karl Frisch: "Socialized" Medicine: Next Front in the Right's -isms Arms Race

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