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Hasibul Alam Posted 5 years ago
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I can not understand the highlighted portion although i know every word meaning

The editor put the caller on hold and stretched her neck. The art of screening out potential crank calls was by no means a perfect science, but this caller had just passed the BBC’s two tacit tests for authenticity of a phone source. He had refused to give his name, and he was eager to get off the phone. Hacks and glory hounds usually whined and pleaded

  

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This will happen pretty often with Brown. I love the first sentence. (The editor measured her refrigerator and wrote her congressman.

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  • This will happen pretty often with Brown.
  • I love the first sentence.
  • (The editor measured her refrigerator and wrote her congressman.
  • ) No art is a perfect science.
  • In fact, art is not science.
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This will happen pretty often with Brown. I love the first sentence. (The editor measured her refrigerator and wrote her congressman. The editor walked her dog and squeezed a tomato.) No art is a perfect science. In fact, art is not science. What is a non-tacit test? She is supposed to screen out crank calls, not potential ones. I'm surprised you got this far.

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Hasibul Alam. Hacks and glory hounds usually whined and pleaded

Hack - a disreputable person who wants to do mischief
glory hound - a person who just want some publicity to get famous.

whine = complain

pleaded = begged

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