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3. edition, issue, copy, printing; magazine, book, serial, review, digest, comic book, funny book, house organ, employee publication; newsmagazine, newsletter; periodical, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, almanac, yearbook; newspaper, paper, newspaper of record, journal, bulletin, gazette; tabloid, SI. tab, SI. sheet, SI. yellow journal, SI. rag, scandal sheet, SI. Daily Blat, SI. Daily Bugle; throw-away, give-away, Dial, shopper, flier, handbill, circular; monograph, treatise, thesis; All SI. girlie magazine, skin magazine, nudie book, cheesecake or beefcake magazine,
publicist, n. 1. press agent, publicity man, agent, public relations man, Inf. PR man, SI. flak, SI. horn-blower; adman, SI. plugger, SI. ballyhooer, SI. pitchman; advance man, Inf. front man.
2. news analyst, commentator, journalist, columnist, editorialist, editorial writer; pressman, critic, political essayist, pamphleteer; political economist, political scientist; correspondent, foreign correspondent.
3. international lawyer, trade lawyer, expert in international law.
publicity, n. public notice, spotlight, limelight; promotion, build-up, SI. hype; presentation, broadcast, ventilation, publication, publicness, notoriety; advertisement, advertising, Inf. hype, SI. ballyho, puffery, SI. blurb, SI. spot, SI. plug, Inf. write-up, Inf. spread, Inf. press, SI. flak or flack, fanfare, SI. hoopla, Inf whoop-de-doo.
publicize, v. advertise, spread about, make public, make known; placard, publish, announce, blazon, herald, report, post, promulgate, propagate; give publicity to, air,, ventilate, broadcast, circularize, disseminate; play up, glorify, promote, Inf. hype, Inf. plug, Inf. push; Inf. drumbeat, Inf. beat the drum, put into the limelight, put into the spotlight, offer for sale,
public-spirited, adj. unselfish, altruistic, philanthropic; humanitarian, human; charitable, beneficent, big-hearted, Inf. big, princely, liberal, munificent, magnanimous, open-handed; kind, kind-hearted, compassionate; other-directed, Psychol, extroverted, non-egotistic, non-egotistical, non-egocentric; disinterested, tolerant, unprejudiced, unbiased, impartial,
publish, v. 1. issue, produce, print, get out, Inf. crank, Derog. spew or spit out; set forth, put out, come out with; circulate, distribute, dispense, disseminate; sponsor, back.
2. promulgate, proclaim, give out, announce, annunciate; report, make public, publicize, advertise; herald, proclaim, cry, blare, blazon, trumpet, bruit, broadcast, noise abroad, advance, promote.
3. disclose, reveal, declare, divulge; tell, impart, inform, relate, utter, Archaic, discover, declare; break the news, let slip, Inf. leak; let the cat out of the bag, spill the beans, blow the lid off of, Inf. blow, blab; release, Inf. break, Archaic, divulgate; tattle, betray, blow the whistle, SI. squeal, SI. squeak, SI. rat, SI. fink, SI. stool; expose, uncover, bare, show; bring to light, unearth, exhibit.
publisher, n. publishing house, publishing concern, Inf. house; printer, newspaperman,
pucker, v. 1. gather, shirr, pleat, ruck, ruffle, draw together; compress, shrink, wither, contract, furrow, squeeze, tighten, purse, knit, crinkle, corrugate, shrivel, wrinkle, crease; muss, rumple, mess up.
-n. 2. wrinkle, fold, gather, pleat; crumple, tuck, pinch, crinkle, ruck, ruffle, rumple, muss, mess; irregularity, flaw, mistake, error.
puckery, adj. 1. gathered, shirred, pleated, rucked, ruffled, drawn together; compressed, shrunken, withered, contracted, furrowed; squeezed, tightened, knitted, crinkled, corrugated; shriveled, wrinkled, creased, mussed, rumpled, messed up.
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Some prisoners have big appetites. Richard Beavers, executed in Texas in 1994, ate for his last meal: 6 pieces of French toast with butter and syrup, 6 barbecued spare ribs, 6 pieces of bacon (burnt), 4 scrambled eggs, 5 sausage patties, French fries with ketchup, 3 slices of cheese, 2 pieces of yellow cake with chocolate fudge icing and 4 cartons of milk. .. More >>
