Word: jargoning
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Feed box. The Telegraph's comprehensive coverage of racing is zealously accurate. It prints past performances, charts and ratings, perhaps half a million digits each day, a printing task which would stagger most newspapers. But its reports seldom err. Most of them are in a jargon no layman can understand. Example: A line on one of the entries in the second race at Florida's Tropical Park one day last week carried this report on Stormy Ruth, a two-year-old bay filly by Little Beans-Witchwater, by St. James, bred by J. Tucci, trained by M. Fife...
...outrage of the audience. Her partner (Dennis Day) steps out of the wings, gives the New Yorkers a lecture that echoes Lincoln's "malice toward none," and soon the audience is on its feet, bawling Dixie with Lotta. Like most Jessel moneymakers, Golden Girl, in the jargon of the show business he knows so well, is strictly from Dixie...
...plane appears hostile, a yellow alert (attack likely) is flashed to civil-defense officials in the potential target area. A red alert (attack) is the signal for sirens to wail and people to seek shelter. Meanwhile, in defense jargon, fighters will "take appropriate action," i.e., try to shoot down the intruder...
...down into the sunless depths of the sea, describes the bottom sediment (in some places 10,000 feet deep), sketches the contours of the submarine mountain ranges, and speculates on the changes in sea shape. As she tells her story with scientific assurance and a happy freedom from scientific jargon, curious bits of information emerge...
...Broadway jargon it speaks so well, Guys and Dolls (TIME, Dec. 4) is now "the hottest ticket in town." (Runners-up: South Pacific, Call Me Madam). Because 50 performances of the hit musical were sold out to theater parties before it opened, even the Manhattan ticket brokers are having a hard time getting tickets for Guys and Dolls; for once, they are not much better off than the ordinary playgoer. Last week, to meet the demand, the show's producers went to an extreme that is unprecedented on Broadway: they began selling tickets as far as a full year...