From the NYT, 11/14/06, p.B8b:

Grant Barrett gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG
Thu Nov 16 15:41:54 UTC 2006


This was ADS's winner for "most euphemistic" last year. There are,
however, only a handful of cites for it.

Grant Barrett
http://www.doubletongued.org/
editor at doubletongued.org

On Nov 16, 2006, at 09:30, Wilson Gray wrote:

> "_[I]nternal nutrition_" is the American military's euphemism for
> force-feeding [captives]."

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