QOTY? -- "hiding in plain sight"

[victor steinbok]

I suspect we can solve the problem by picking the correct initialism.
Perhaps "WOTY candidate" is better than "QOTY candidate". At least WOTY, in
extended sense, includes phrases.

VS-)

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

>
> I was not referring (or not not referring, if you prefer) to the
> phrase as "used by the Boston Globe to enumerate known contacts
> Bulger made in Massachusetts and NY since going into hiding", which
> means through 16 years, but rather to the phrase as used by Boston
> media to refer to Bulger living openly near the Santa Monica Pier, as
> discovered this year.
>
> And if Garson is correct that "Tight deadlines combined with lethargy
> may cause headline writers to use it again soon.", then doesn't it
> become even more the QOTY?
>
> Joel
>
> At 6/25/2011 02:43 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
> >The phrase was also used repeatedly during the media coverage of an
> >event in May:
> >
> >Bin Laden discovered 'hiding in plain sight'
> >By Greg Miller and Joby Warrick
> >2011 May 2 Washington Post
> >
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/bin-laden-discovered-hiding-in-plain-sight/2011/05/02/AFEljUbF_story.html
> >
> >Tight deadlines combined with lethargy may cause headline writers to
> >use it again soon.
>

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