Sunday, January 30, 2022

rapacious \ruh-PAY-shuhs\, adjective:

1. Given to plunder; seizing by force.
2. Subsisting on prey.
3. Grasping; greedy.

Rapacious comes from Latin rapax, rapac-, "seizing, grasping, greedy," from rapere, "to seize, to snatch."

 

the time

• Giving the time to someone means having sexual intercourse with that person. Salinger uses this phrase quite often in his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

"I don't think he gave that girl the time that night-but damn near."

 

History

• Charles I: monarch of Great Britain and Ireland was beheaded for treason (1649)
• Mahatma Gandhi: nonviolent Indian political and spiritual leader was assassinated in Delhi by a Hindu extremist; Gandhi had been working to promote Hindu-Muslim unity (1948)
• Tet Offensive: the Vietcong launched a series of surprise attacks (1968)
• The Beatles: performed as a group for the last time in public; they played for 45 minutes on the roof of their Apple Records studio (1969)
• Bloody Sunday: 14 civil rights protesters were shot to death by British troops in Derry, Northern Ireland (1972)
• Iraq: held its first free election in 50 years (2005)

Birthdays

• Anton Checkhov 1860

  
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S.) 1882
• Roy Eldridge (Gene Krupa's Band) 1911
• David Wayne 1914
• John Ireland 1914
• Bennie Leighton 1921
• Gene Martin 1922
• Dick Martin 1922
• Barbara Hale 1922
• Dorothy Malone 1925
• Douglas Engelbart 1925
• Gene Hackman 1931
• Louis Rukeyser 1933
• Tammy Grimes 1934
• Horst Jankowski 1936
• Boris Spassky 1937
• Vanessa Redgrave 1937
• Norma Jean 1938
• Dick Cheney 1941
• Joe Terranova (Danny and the Juniors) 1941
• Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane) 1942
• Steve Marriott (Humble Pie & Small Faces) 1947
• William King (The Commodores) 1949
• Charles Dutton 1951
  Phil Collins 1951 drummer
• Brett Butler 1958
• Jody Watley 1959
• Christian Bale 1974
  Eiza González 1990