Common causes, cures for a persistent cough. Cough for a minute or two, and you may think something has gone down the wrong pipe.. Cough for a day or two, and you may think you've picked up a cold or the flu. After a week, bronchitis or allergies may come to mind.
Some ninety years ago Vladimir Lenin coined the phrase âuseful idiotâ and it originally described liberal Communist sympathizers in Western nations who, as the Soviet leader explained, would âsell us (Soviet Russia) the rope with which we will hang them (the West).â.
The 'misunderestimated' president? All politicians are prone to make slips of the tongue in the heat of the moment-and President George W Bush has made more than most. The word Bushism has been coined to label his occasional verbal lapses during eight years in office, which come to an end on 20 January.