Word: coiner
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...Shoeless Joe 38. First name used to be Hafez; now it's Bashar 40. Rubbernecker 41. Legislation that would eliminate the need for paper contracts 42. Deer sirs 44. Antidiscrimination agcy. Thomas once chaired 45. Allied victory site of 7/18/44 47. Its price has skyrocketed in Chicago 48. Coiner of the word stabile 50. Kind...
Brevity is so highly prized that one good aphorism can earn its coiner immortality. Yet there is one form of brevity that gets no respect at all: the sound bite...
What kinds of crime incurred such punishments? Murder and treason have almost always ensured death. Under the Mosaic law, capital offenses ranged from gathering sticks on the Sabbath and adultery to the sacrifice of children to the god Molech. A medieval German code decreed: "Should a coiner [counterfeiter] be caught in the act, then let him be stewed in the pan or a cauldron...
...image does not con everyone. His father treats Gold as if he were a delinquent child; his daughter nails him as a philandering skunk; and his wife seems to feel he is not worth getting excited about. All three are correct. In Washington, however, Gold is hailed as the coiner of the phrase, "You're boggling my mind," and that innovative answer to journalists' questions: "I don't know...
Sabatini's talents as a stylist lie well to the south of, say, Sir Walter Scott's. He is a Monte Pythonesque coiner of clichés: rubies have a fearless tendency to "glow like live coals," and Frenchmen sputter expletives like "Name of a name!" and "By example!" Yet in the next sentence Sabatini can turn a flashing phrase (a eunuch's hands are two "bunches of fat fingers...