Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result is that German has become peppered with what might be called deutschlisch words and phrases. Many of the hybrid words come from the aeronautic or computer fields, but many more are general terms like die Eskalation, die Antibabypille, der Selfmademan and der Allroundman...
...month rate by Israel Aircraft Industry, a government-owned company that is increasing its work force from 12,000 to 20,000 people. Eventually the output is to be doubled. Other factories meanwhile have begun turning out Israeli tanks. So far, the most successful of these has been a hybrid that can operate in both desert and mountains. It mates the low silhouette and turret design of the Russian T-54 (Israel captured nearly 400 of them in the Six-Day War) with the periscope, stabilizers and range finders of the British Centurion and the transmission and engine...
...fair, Agnew did not invent the guilt-by-verbal-association form of terminological confusion. Some years ago, the phrase "radical conservative" was used in both liberal and radical circles. This horrid hybrid, radical conservative, every bit as monstrous as radical liberal, was supposed to describe activist conservatives, such as members of the John Birch society, who were inclined to ideologize their principles and who exhibited some stylistic similarities to leftist radicals. People have called themselves "radical conservatives," meaning that their conservatism was fundamental and thoroughgoing. Similarly, a man might -though few, if any, have done so in recent years-call...
...annals of political invective are full of hybrid epithets. "Comsymps," musty term though it is, can still be heard occasionally from the distant right. The far left revels in items like "establishment-fascists" and "bourgeois-racists...
FROM Ocoya, 90 miles out of Chicago, U.S. 66 slices its way southwestward toward St. Louis through seas of hybrid feed corn. Blackbirds wing over the blowing tassels, plucking caterpillars from among the leaves and blowing silk, oblivious to the round-the-clock rumble of the highway. In this season the land is still hot, the air humid; the prairie wind sears rather than cools, and storms roll in from the west in minutes. Along the four-lane divided highway, humming tires throw up white crushed rock from the shoulders to nick a windshield or chip paint from a fender...