Word: crypticism
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...cryptic, demotic jargon-and the Arkahoma accent in which it is invariably delivered no matter where in the U.S.-may seem outlandish to many. If so, they had better hang easy and adjust to it. From 8 to 10 million more CB sets will be sold in 1976, which with extra equipment could amount to some $2.5 billion worth-nearly as much as total sales of TV sets. One of the biggest manufacturers, Hy-Gain Electronics Corp. (maker of Betty Ford's rig), reported that 1976 first-quarter sales quintupled those for the same period...
...biggest problem for contemporary readers and for those future historians Nixon was so concerned about is the handling of sources and documentation. While All the President's Men was devoted to this problem, The Final Days ignores it altogether. In an unfortunately cryptic foreword, the authors explain that The Final Days is based on interviews with 394 people. "Some persons spent dozens of hours with us and volunteered information freely; one person was interviewed seventeen times." They go on to say that "many supplied us with contemporaneous notes, memoranda, correspondence, logs, calendars, and diaries." So far, so good...
...about some of the items earlier in the trial, Patty had repeatedly cited her Fifth Amendment rights against selfincrimination 42 times in all, leaving some members of the jury visibly startled. The new material included notes in Patty's handwriting, so stipulated by Bailey, that seemed to be cryptic references to making a time bomb: the "toaster wire: 10 sec; timing device w/fuse; clock (set to minutes) or cigarette (wire in fuse)." There were also more explicit and alarming comments: "place for 'switch' car to be (just in case); lookout signal; meet to talk about shooting...
...lots of bedraggled skirts assured me that there are still Odd Fellows in Central Square; she said the organization was "for old men, essentially, like the Elks or the Moose Club." There must be something to this group that the other two lack, though, because it alone rates a cryptic definition in the American Heritage Dictionary: "Odd Fellow: A member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal and benevolent secret society." I can't figure them out; the only odd fellows I've met in Central Square were bums and drunks
...last Saturday there I was mixing it up with the same crowd that had been the nemesis of my junior high school autumns. We were making cryptic comments about all the prep alumni who were on hand, cracking the usual F. Scott jokes which go over so well at Princeton games and stumbling over the words of Fair Harvard...