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How did the word "bogart" come to mean "steal"? Excerpted from WordOrigins.org: "Several people have emailed me asking how Humphrey Bogart's name became associated with a term meaning selfishness. Ah, how soon we forget the intricacies of '60s drug culture. The selfish connotation comes from hogging a marijuana cigarette. Someone who kept the joint in their mouth, hanging from their lip like Bogey, would be bogarting the...

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How did the Supreme Court decide Roe v. Wade? On what parts of the Constitution did they base their decision? The Oyez project presents this constitutional question and answer: Q: Does the Constitution embrace a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy by abortion? A: The Court held that a woman's right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy (recognized in Griswold v. Connecticut) protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision gave a woman total autonomy over the pregnancy...

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