The harassed often feel compelled to answer the messages, whether they are one-word insults or 3 a.m. demands.
Claiborne Farm here in central Kentucky is noted for short, one-word names, such as Swale, that won the Kentucky Derby back in the '80s.
James Karl Buck was released from a Mahalla jail after sending a one-word blog post from his cell phone through the Twitter Web site.
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The public need only flip open a tabloid or surf the blogs for the up-to-the-minute happenings of the duo, better known by their one-word media moniker.
That may attract a one-word answer, but the response to the Conservative Oliver Colville's question on the levels of Public Finance Initiative (PFI) debt in hospitals might attract an interesting response.
But that question requires more than a one-word answer.
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Harold Sheppard, associate director of the National Council on the Aging, has a one-word description of benefits paid now and all increases that may be necessary to keep those payments abreast of inflation.
Unfortunately, the Czechs have been unable to agree on a one-word informal name for their country, whether in Czech or English, since the peaceful demise of Czechoslovakia 11 years ago (the other half became Slovakia, which works fine so long as it is not confused with Slovenia).
But even more to the point, when Ms. Lewinsky was asked the direct question at the grand jury whether she interpreted the gift of the Vancouver bear carving as a signal to her to 'be strong in your decision to continue to conceal the relationship, ' her direct, one-word answer was 'no.
"James' case is particularly compelling to us because of the simplicity of his message -- one word, 'arrested' -- and the speed with which the whole scene played out, " Stone said.
The lead gunman spoke one other word - "Right" - and the shooting began.
"My answer is one word -- money, " Goldstone said in announcing his withdrawal from the process.
"There are a lot of activists that describe infant surgery in one word - mutilation, " explains Dr Devore.
He woke my wife and said, I'm sorry for waking you up but just remember one word--Helmet.
One word -- we aimed at the quality of the treaty.
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" The headline these days should probably be just one word - "Fog" - although perhaps a second headline might help "No-one can see where they're going.
For one word - you know, people have been working on a kind of a constitution of principles, a document for the past six or seven months, you know, has many things.
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Given a lens to notice lettering styles by the typographer Paul Shaw, I counted six distinct serifed fonts in the lobby of the building where I work, punctuated by only one word -- EXIT -- entirely without serifs.
Mr McNeill, 43, who also planted a flag for Cancer Research UK in memory of his father-in-law said there was not one cross word during their 28-day trek across the ice, before being picked up by an aircraft and whisked back to base camp.
The process was very much on track, and -- dare one use a word that should not be used in the context of North Korean negotiations -- there was optimism.
David Cameron says he'll have a referendum, but no-one believes a word he says.
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But it allows only a one- or two-word answer, obscuring almost as much as it reveals about what has happened to religion during the past decade.
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The Commission's argument is that because it has dedicated departments - one for simultaneous interpretation and one for translation of the written word - it can guarantee uniform quality across the board.
Brazil's problem can be summed up in one word: debt--and way too much of it.
"By hindering the fundamental right to free speech, they are, in one word, anti-democratic, " she said.
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But they did sympathise with their brethren across the border - no-one had a good word to say about the Northern Ireland Parades Commission which banned the Drumcree route.
"It was like my emails were somehow less official, " said Mr. Sinclair, who thinks disclaimers are legally insignificant and wrote a 636-word satirical one for the humor website McSweeney's.
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