Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coupling of spirituality and political sentimentality" dismayed the Christian Century's editors, who assailed "those who find their security in sanctifying the status quo." Raising a different objection, the Rev. Dudley Ward, a general secretary of the United Methodist Church, thinks Nixon should attend local churches and not confine his devotions to the White House. Says Ward: "European royalty had its private chapels, insulated from the wider community. The President represents the nation and the people, and cannot isolate himself from the important institutions in our national life...
...survival in a threatening world. He modestly described his risky, arcane calling as a "craft" but pursued it with an unrelenting enthusiasm and expertise that helped make the Central Intelligence Agency - for all its adverse publicity and serious misjudgments -the world's most efficient espionage organization. British Major-General Sir Kenneth Strong, former head of intelligence for the Supreme Allied Command in Europe, says of Dulles: "No more acute intellect has served in the profession before or since...
Dulles' greatest achievement in World War II was the negotiation of an early surrender of German troops in Italy, which he arranged through a secret meeting with the SS commanding general in a Swiss villa. That act doubtless saved thousands of American lives. It also infuriated Stalin, who did not relish the prospect of a unilateral U.S. settlement with the Germans...
Other words came right out of old Scotch-Irish dialect-wee for small, kimmie for man, tweed for young man, deek for look at. Still other words were borrowed from the Porno Indians, who moved off to a reservation after an early settler set up his general store in the middle of their camping ground. A few words are corruptions of French, like gorm (gourmand...
...ball belljeemer;/ The gorms had shied, the nook was strung,/ And the ball belljeemer had neemer."* Then there were the code names for nonch (not-nice) subjects. To go to bed with a girl was to burlap her, because one day in the 1890s someone walked into the general store, found no clerk, checked the storeroom and found him making love to a young lady on a pile of sacks. The word caught on, although it got competition from ricky-chow, an onomatopoeic description of the twanging bedsprings in the Boonville Hotel's honeymoon suite...