Word: jargoning
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...line. Watch workers for their attitudes towards prominent anti-Communist labor leaders such as David Dubinsky, Walter Reuther. Read all the campaign material issued by both sides in plant elections. Characteristics of CP literature: violence of utterance; unreasonable criticisms; charges that the opposition is fascist; use of such CP jargon as "deviationist," "Lovestoneite," "revisionist," "capitalist contradiction," "dialectic," "mass base...
...Make It Easier. R.I.A. warned, however, that none of these things were sure proof. Non-Communist labor leaders sometimes use the same tricks of the trade, sometimes even the same jargon. And "nothing plays into Communist hands so much as denouncing a non-Communist union official as a CPer." That makes it easier for Communists to conceal their own identities. They have encouraged the trend...
Gumbo Ya-Ya (which is Cajun for "Everybody talks at once") contains instructive chapters on crapshooting, how to play the lottery, the decaying Creoles, the decaying plantations, slaves and slave tortures, buried treasure, the New Orleans slums, the Mississippi River front, its roustabouts and their jargon, and New Orleans cemeteries to which, during rainy spells, coffins sometimes have to be brought in boats and forced under the muddy water with poles...
Adam and Eve before the Fall were "food gatherers," in anthropological jargon. Like Bushmen and Piutes, they lived on what they could rustle up. But after they ate "of the tree of knowledge" and were driven from the Garden (Genesis 3: 16-19), they became husbandmen. Then Adam tilled the earth "in the sweat of his face...
...more successful device is the use of the voices of what seems like hundreds of individuals. Each voice, in the inflection of its own part of the world and in the jargon of a particular martial trade, gives one molecular view of the campaign. A Brooklyn tankman tells of his disgust when his tank runs out of gas, a Canadian describes the hideous fighting around Caen, a Royal Navy man admits his road sickness when his assault craft is trucked cross-country to the Rhine, a Negro cook tells how he learned to fire a bazooka at Bastogne, a primly...