From Dictinary dot com -
Word of the Day for Friday February 21, 2003aggress \uh-GRES\, intransitive verb:
To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to make an attack.

Nagaraj can never bring himself to aggress or fight back, but he is capable of a delicious malice.
--Julian Moynahan, "India of the Imagination. . . ," New York Times, July 15, 1990

The hand . . . is the most versatile of organs. Through its agency we lift, pinch, squeeze, explore, feel, learn, discriminate, repulse, caress, aggress.
--F. Gonzalez-Crussi, "The Hand," Washington Post, July 19, 1998

A master of drawing, Rico Lebrun, discovered that "the draftsman must aggress; only by persistent assault will the live image capitulate and give up its secret to an unrelenting line."
--Annie Dillard, "Write Till You Drop," New York Times, May 28, 1989
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Aggress is from French agresser, from Latin aggredi, aggress-, "to approach, to approach aggressively, to attack," from ad-, "to" + gradi, "to step, to walk."

subtle (adjective satellite) -
1. faint and difficult to analyze
"subtle aromas"

2. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
"glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
Synonyms: insidious, pernicious

3. be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind
"his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul"
Synonyms: elusive

4. able to make fine distinctions
"a subtle mind"

From Eric Boehlert's Salon article on Clear Channel, and the possibility / plausibility that they can become an even bigger (as in multi- ) media monopoly:
"When one company dominates an industry, it can leverage its monopoly power in all kinds of unpleasant ways, both politically and economically. Does anyone really want what happened to radio to happen to TV, or newspapers, or cable television?"
Something akin to Disney buying out Gannet . . . and then we have our own Mickey Truth and our own Mini-Truth ... uhmmm ... hold on a second, George. That sounds familiar ...

A word I discovered in the dictionary (while looking up a different word) researching a paper I'm working on:

crissum (kris em) - n., pl. crissa (kris e). Zool. the feathers or area surrounding a birds cloacal opening. {N. Lat. < Lat. crissare, to move the buttocks during intercourse.}

Just goes to show that everything's done under the sun and well documented for some time now. We don't even have a term for that in English . . . crazy Romans.