Word: hapax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...semantics of President Kennedy's proposed Disarmament Agency, up for consideration at a time when popular sentiment is more belliferous than pacific, changed the name, in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, to the United States Arms Control Agency. The stuffier Senate had already chosen a somewhat longer hapax legomenon, the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for World Peace and Security...
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