Word: jargoning
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After the businessman had "endorsed" himself (a piece of Low jargon meaning to give oneself credit for one's efforts), other patients recited incidents in accordance with the organization's strict formula: 1) a brief description of an everyday event that precipitated a recent emotional upheaval, 2) an enumeration of the symptoms aroused, 3) an explanation of how the member himself dealt with them, and 4) how Recovery helped. Every recital is designed to accentuate the positive...
...over a period of four months from November to March, he secretly sent his planes (mostly F-4 Phantoms) north to hit unauthorized targets. To cover his actions, the official reports of the missions were falsified all along the line to describe them as "protective reaction" strikes. In Pentagon jargon, that means a pilot has let loose on a target because that target, usually a missile battery, has fired or was preparing to fire on his plane. During Lavelle's tenure, only such enemy action made bombing in North Viet Nam permissible...
...real) and the concatenations of bewildering vignettes are glued together only by the reader's curiosity. But all the while, DeLillo demonstrates his golden ear for the tin and tinsel of Americanese, and many of his dialogues skewer perfectly the soft spots in academic double-talk, adolescent vagueness, the jargon of nuclear warfare (as in Herman Kahn's own book of the dead. On Thermonuclear War), public relations yes-speak, and the excruciatingly serious military-religious language of dedicated football coaches. Take, for example, the language of a shouted psyching bout before the second half of the game with Centrex...
...Editor Michael Coady sees circulation rising to 250,000 as "we start to fill the gap between fashion magazines and daily newspaper coverage of clothes." Although some original material may be added later, W now is a repackaging of WWD, minus the Seventh Avenue trade news but including WWD jargon (certain men show a "studly attraction") and initial codes (BP for beautiful people, CP for the jetsetters that WWD dubs the "cat pack...
...search quickly led to the same technology that produced that tiny workhorse of modern electronics, the transistor, which owes its success to a class of materials called semiconductors. These are crystalline substances that will readily conduct an electric current only if they are contaminated -or, in technical jargon, "doped" -with other substances that give them either a surplus or deficit of electrons. Moreover, if two dissimilar semiconductors are joined together-one with a shortage of negatively charged electrons (known as a P-type because it has a positive charge), the other with an electron abundance (or N-type because...