Word: acronymously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soweto (an acronym for southwest townships) remembered its grim anniversary last week in a solemn moratorium that its residents, with calculated irony, called "Black Christmas." There was a two-day general strike by African workers and packed church services fiercely punctuated with raised black-power salutes. Hymns of liberation like Senzenina (What Have We Done?) were sung about Azania-the name that black nationalists use for South Africa. Black sports and entertainment events were canceled. Even Soweto's 400 illegal drinking shebeens were closed. White and African police gathered in force outside the wire fences that border the township...
...their mildness would neither rally the country nor solve the energy dilemma. After asking Americans to wage "the moral equivalent of war" in meeting "the greatest challenge that our country will face during our lifetime," Carter put forward proposals that were hardly draconian. (Humorist Russell Baker observed that the acronym for moral equivalent of war is MEOW.) Indeed, if the financial discomfiture was to be as minimal as the Administration was claiming at week's end, the essential changes for Americans would be ones of habit and life-style?but those could prove more painful than dollar losses...
...episodes in a savage spasm of violence in Spain last week, the worst in recent memory. It claimed a total of ten lives, including those of three policemen who were shot down by unidentified gunmen in working-class suburbs of Madrid. A purportedly leftist terrorist group called GRAPO (an acronym in Spanish for Oct. 1 Antifascist Resistance Groups) claimed responsibility for the police killings, but the initial bloody attacks of the week, including that against the Communist lawyers, were evidently the work of right-wing extremists. Said one Western analyst in Madrid: "The ultras on the right want to provoke...
...given serious consideration: a toll-free phone line to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on which people could ring up the White House for help in solving whatever problems they have with the Government. The proposer, William Forhan of Tracyton, Wash., also suggested that the number should be an easily remembered acronym: PEANUTS...
...presidential campaign, Dole learned that he was to have nothing to do with the election of Nixon; the job was to be done by a new and oddly named group called the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Dole got revenge, of sorts, by coining the acronym CREEP for the organization that was to become so infamous...