It’s December 6, 2022. Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “slant.”
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This, That, and the Other 
ODE TO SLANT
Slant it yep?
Slant it no?
Slant the last rhyme?
Yep how now
Yep yep
How now
Wot for?
Dunno?
Best I could do Fan……
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I have leanings to comment on this FWOC 🙂
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That’s a new slant.
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Lean on brother……
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slant rhyme
is not fine
said the purist
to the tourist
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Very good
Clap clap
Rubber duck
Quack quack
?
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Don deserves
a pat pat pat
even though he’s feeling
a tad flat flat flat
he tries to make us laugh
with loony silly remarks
but bob is not his uncle
and that’s no fault of his
no worries mate
you’ve got a lot on your plate
get better soon
we need buffoons
to even up the slate
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Thanks Rall…..
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https://loucarrerascarver.com/2022/12/06/low-key-is-good/
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Different slants on the word/concept(s), sacrifice as illustrated (among many illustrations in history and language, et cetera).
https://www.bet.com/article/485k82/tuskegee-experiment-anniversary-explainer
Official records show that at least 28 of the 600 Black men involved died as a direct result of syphilitic infection, and another 100 died of related complications. This didn’t just touch the lives of the men who were duped into the study. Forty Black women, married to these men, were diagnosed and passed it to 19 children at birth. By 1969, the study, which was never a secret, was beginning to attract negative criticism from many in the medical community, who criticized it as unethical. Dr. Irwin Shatz, a cardiologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit was among them.
He voiced his disgust directly to the administrators in charge of the study in 1965: “…I assume you feel that the information which is extracted from observation of this untreated group is worth their sacrifice. If this is the case, then I suggest the United States Public Health Service and those physicians associated with it in this study need to re-evaluate their moral judgments in this regard.” – Dr. Irwin Shatz, in a letter to the Tuskegee Study’s senior author, Dr. Donald H. Rockwell.
That letter was never answered, but others were angry enough to sound the alarm. William Jenkins, a Black USPHS statistician who joined the agency in 1967 learned of the study, discovering in fact that multiple medical journals had written about it. When he approached his supervisor in protest, he was told “don’t worry about it.”
Defiant to that response, Jenkins and a group of activists published what they had learned about the Tuskegee Study in a newspaper called The Drum, but it was never picked up by major media. Jenkins went on to have a successful career in epidemiology at the Centers For Disease Control. He died in 2019 at age 73.
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[Side note: It bothers me that so many articles use words like “dragged” and “slammed” — the same word was used in a Newsweek article on the same story. I do believe she deserves correction (and the criticism). However, she has shown before that she is a bit dull-minded in more ways than one.]
https://www.bet.com/article/3ayl1t/cdc-director-slammed-calling-tuskegee-study-victims-suffering-a-sacrifice
It is common in science to use the word “sacrifice” for an animal that is killed or given up in the course of study.
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Here’s one: https://theelephantstrunk.org/2020/05/17/a-little-ray-of-light/
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