Word: gab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baffle-Gab Theology Sir: Re your Baffle-Gab Thesaurus [Sept. 13], you failed to note that the bureaucrat selecting 257, "systematized logistical projection," would undoubtedly also feel compelled to invent a suitable acronym for his invention: in this case, SLOP...
...deep in debt (he owes $280,000 to his lawyers) and nearing the final round of his losing two-year bout with the U.S. Selective Service System; yet Muhammad Ali, 25, once known as Cassius Marcellus Clay, still has that golden gift of gab. His latest bit of doggerel, recited on college campuses while speaking for the cause of the Black Muslims, recounts the long journey in store for Joe Frazier, current pretender to the heavyweight crown, if ever they should fight...
...only place in the world where I can really get away from it all in comfort," says Gardner. But why two? "At night we moor them about 50 ft. apart, and the women take over one and the men the other," he explains. "That way the women can gab all they want, and we can play penny ante in peace...
...Gift of Gab. The task begins with defining America. The pursuit of a manifest destiny was anything but purposeful. Louisiana was purchased as an afterthought, the French sold West Florida to the U.S. without knowing it, the U.S. acquired West Florida without paying for it. Not until after the Civil War, in fact, could an American say what America...
American ways of thinking and being were as fluid and uncertain as the American frontier. Boorstin explores them in an erudite and eloquent essay on the American gift of gab. With verbacious vitality, the growing American language devoured Indian, Dutch, German, Spanish, French and Negro words. Others were invented (caucus, lynch-law, squatter), improvised (sockdolager, spondulix, absquatulate), and embellished (kerflop, kerthump, kersouse). The general exuberance also burst out in political oratory and tall talk ("Bust me wide open if I didn't bulge into the creek in the twinkling of a bedpost, I was so thunderin' savagerous...