Word: jargoning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
nerf (hot-rod jargon)-to push with another...
...jargon)-conceited type
What possesses the modern playgoer? Above all, it is the chance to get away from modern drama that represents little more than introverted self-communion, from little plays about miserable little people. In Shakespeare, he sees characters probed in Freudian depth, without the jargon. Instead of words that plop over the footlights like dead tennis balls, he hears language that surges like the sea. The modern stage bleats with special pleadings...
...menu-without adding a kitchen. The secret: precooked foods warmed in an electronic oven, similar to airplane meals. On the Indiana turnpike. Interstate Hosts' chain of 16 restaurants serves $4,000,000 worth of such meals a year. Boasts Regional Manager F. D. Gibbons in the horrible jargon of his trade: "We don't have cooks in our restaurants -just people who reconstitute food...
...jargon in Castro's speeches and in his captive press these days is increasingly Marxist. Aureliano Sanchez Arango, 53, a former Minister of State of Cuba and one of the early fighters against ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista, charges that "while Castro had ideas, he had no program; the Communists gave him the program." The man most responsible is Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 32, an Argentine physician, Castro's best field commander, and a Red. A Castro official recalls that when Guevara returned from a three-month trip around the world in September 1959, "things began to happen." Part...