Word: jargoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spell out his findings, a 16-minute recording was played, while a tape of recorded instructions controlled the illustrative lights in the model. To the visiting G.P.s, most of whom had given no thought to the brain's anatomy since their first year in medical school, the technical jargon was almost as forbidding as to a layman. Crux of the matter: drugs influence mental function mainly through their effects on two parts of the brain: 1) the primitive midbrain's reticular (little network) formation, and 2) the connections between the thalamus (inner chamber) and the outer cortex (bark...
...West's plan was more cautious, more complicated, and more practical, for built into its every step was the important element scarcely mentioned in the Soviet proposal: control, inspection and enforcement to ensure honest compliance by all ("verification" is the new jargon word for it). The West proposed a program with no timetable and three stages...
...almost empty Senate chamber shambled hulking, crag-faced Paul H. (for Howard) Douglas of Illinois, zestfully booming out the long jargon phrases of higher economics. White crew-cut hair bristling, Democrat Douglas last week was declaiming on an emerging issue in 1960 politicking: the state of the U.S. economy after seven years of Republican stewardship. Prompting his performance was his Joint Economic Committee's report on a year-long study of U.S. employment, growth and price levels...
Long a hot topic among pundits, whose jargon phrase for it is "the population explosion," the startling 20th century surge in humanity's rate of reproduction may be as fateful to history as the H-bomb and the Sputnik, but it gets less public attention. Today two-thirds of the human race does not get enough to eat. And it is among the hungry peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America that the population explosion is most violent. In 1900 there was one European for every two Asians; by 2000 there will probably be four Asians for every European...