crash blossom: "accuses critics of blood libel"

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:14 PM -0500 1/12/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>If "blood libel" were in OED, perhaps the irenic and usually well-informed
>Gov. Palin would have chosen other words.
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>JL

So wikipedia is too abstruse for her?  Cf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
--not yet updated to include this occurrence among the "Notable Instances".

LH

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>On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Michael Covarrubias
><mcovarru at purdue.edu>wrote:
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>>  "Sarah Palin accuses critics of 'blood libel'"
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>>  i first read this headline as claiming that palin had accused those people
>>  who were critical of her use of the phrase "blood libel."
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>>  tho my first reading would be a use of "accuse" with only one object, that
>>  i see, but not as often.
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>>  the article
>>  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70B3W320110112
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>>  michael
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