Word: gist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example of common reactions to Bill Laimbeer should illustrate what I mean. Each time Laimbeer enters Boston Garden (or other hostile arenas) he is invariable greeted with a spattering of signs and a din of obloquy all either literally saying or having the general gist of "Bill Laimbeer stinks." Of course, no fan means by this that Bill Laimbeer needs stronger deodorant. They all are insulting his basketball skills in an attempt to insult him personally...
...have pictured this scene, you get the gist of Kirkland House's presentation of Godspell, one of Broadway's most successful musicals. The production delivers contemporary messages about the Christian faith and encases them in a series of great laughs...
...Bush Administration had yet given on the gulf war. But when General Colin Powell trotted out the visual aids last week, things got a bit fuzzy. One chart, showing the decline in Iraqi radar activity under allied bombing, was virtually devoid of numbers. Still, said Powell, the gist was accurate. "Trust me," he said. "Trust...
Writing rushed in to fill the void that had been occupied by drugs. Her first sprawling demi-autobiographical outpourings were bound and ungagged between the covers of Postcards in 1987. The gist of the haywire parable is that fame and fortune are no shield; things can go very wrong in rich families with smart, talented people too. The book is less about the outlaw romance of drug abuse than about the process of picking up the pieces. She explains, "The facts don't change, just the fiction that you make up about them...
...hundreds of borrowings from computer to frustrieren, a particular favorite among verbs. All in all, roughly a quarter of the most commonly used words in English and German are identical or similar enough to be understandable. Thus for the uninitiated, it is probably easier to pick up the gist of a conversation in German than one in most other languages. No small satisfaction...