is an occasion. If you're a racehorse, or a sailor at the equator, it might be cause to celebrate. If you are the nation's best-known newspaper, it might call for a more sober response. For instance, the milestone op-ed piece that ran in the New York Times, on Sept. 20, 2016, marking one of its own editorial decisions. It was about a certain word. "A loaded word," admitted Liz Spayd, then the paper's public editor. But in this particular case, "it passes my smell test." The word was lie. It wasn't just what the word was. It was where it was. Not in an editorial, or an opinion piece, but in a straight news story. On the front page, in a headline. "Trump Gives Up a Lie but Refuses to Repent.”