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TAR.
Last seen on: Wall Street Journal Crossword – October 06 2022 – Blank Spaces
Random information on the term “Besmirch”:
In common law, assault is the tort of acting intentionally, that is with either general or specific intent, causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive contact. Assault requires intent, it is considered an intentional tort, as opposed to a tort of negligence. Actual ability to carry out the apprehended contact is not necessary. ‘The conduct forbidden by this tort is an act that threatens violence.’
In criminal law an assault is defined as an attempt to commit battery, requiring the specific intent to cause physical injury.
As distinguished from battery, assault does not need to involve the ‘unwanted physical contact; but is the anticipation of such contact’. It only needs intent to make or threaten contact and the resulting apprehension. At one point, the common law understanding of assault required more than words alone, it also required an overt act. This understanding has changed, while words alone cannot be construed as assault, words coinciding with actions or circumstances that would put a person in reasonable apprehension that a harm or offensive contact was likely to occur would. For example, an actor shouting “I’m going to kill you” while not moving but in complete shadow and with a knife in their hand could be interpreted as assault.
Random information on the term “TAR”:
Tar is the name for the resinous, partially combusted particulate matter made by the burning of tobacco and other plant material in the act of smoking. Tar is toxic and damages the smoker’s lungs over time through various biochemical and mechanical processes. Tar also damages the mouth by rotting and blackening teeth, damaging gums, and desensitizing taste buds. Tar includes the majority of mutagenic and carcinogenic agents in tobacco smoke. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), for example, are genotoxic and epoxidative.
Cigarette companies in the United States, when prompted to give tar/nicotine ratings for cigarettes, usually use “tar”, in quotation marks, to indicate that it is not the road surface component. Tar is occasionally referred to as an acronym for total aerosol residue, a backronym coined in the mid-1960s.
Tar, when in the lungs, coats the cilia causing them to stop working and eventually die, causing conditions such as lung cancer as the toxic particles in tobacco smoke are no longer trapped by the cilia but enter the alveoli directly.[citation needed] Thus, the alveoli cannot come through with the process that is called ‘gas exchange’ which is the cause of rough breathing.[citation needed]