Saturday, May 10, 2008

Word of the Day

Finlandize: to be obliged for economic reasons to favor, or at least not actively oppose, the interests of the Soviet Union in spite of not being politically allied to it.

I don't know how I ever got by without it, frankly. I find it coming up in casual conversation a good twenty or thirty times a day.

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