Word: jargoning
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...jargon was springing up everywhere. In San Francisco the word "boodles" was used both as a noun and a verb-and could mean anything under the sun. In Charleston, S. C., where dyeing the forelock was all the rage, kids greeted each other by crying...
...Party Ba Gu is Party jargon. It combines hackneyed language with unfamiliar terminology. ... In our drive to build the Party to 100,000 let's be on guard against Ba Gu. . . . When Communists are accused of being dogmatic by sincere persons what is often meant is that our correct thought is so wrapped up in the language of Ba Gu that we are simply not understood. Ba Gu is harmful to the individual, harmful to our cause and must therefore be exterminated...
...Stephen M. Schwebel, strikes out at federalist perfectionists who "take legal symbols for social realities." "The Coming Economic Crisis in America," by George Goldstein, appears to be a digest of an honors thesis and is consequently well backed up by statistics. It suffers only slightly from the dry jargon of academic economics. He sets up the proposition that within the next two years the American economy will face a serious set-back, thanks to the lack of profitable investment outlets, the continued growth of monopoly, and the lack of purchasing power in the lower income brackets. His six point program...
Alcoholism and other forms of neurosis, currently so fashionable on the screen, are here presented without the usual hocus-pocus and yeast-endorser's jargon...
...spoken-language level, where radio has operated for years. Among his clients: the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Star, United Press. His prize customer: the Wall Street Journal, which he says puts out "the most readable front page in the country" by shunning the technical jargon of the Street...