Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Holy Being. The word of God, naked and unadorned, may be fine for the true believer, but some theologians argue that Biblical terminology has ceased to be part of the world's vocabulary, and is in danger of becoming a special jargon as incomprehensible to some as the equations of physicists. To bridge this communications gap, they have tried to reinterpret the concept of God into contemporary philosophical terms. Union Seminary's John Macquarrie, for example, proposes a description of God based on Martin Heidegger's existential philosophy, which is primarily concerned with explaining the nature of "being" as such...
...thin, blond and balding. He has the disconcerting ability to talk in a completely calm and normal voice for the duration of a record, then hold up a hand in warning, switch on his mike, talk with raised pitch and volume for half a minute in perfect disc jockey jargon, put a new record on, turn off the mike, and ask, "Now what were we talking about?" When I marveled at his completely transformed on-the-air personality, he said a little defensively, "It beats working...
...simply pressing buttons, NORAD officers can electronically scan the entire North American continent and its distant approaches; they can track on the screens before them the flight of missiles or planes, friendly or hostile. They can, in COC jargon, "build up" a picture that includes patterns of probable radioactive fallout and areas that have been destroyed or made uninhabitable by nuclear, chemical or even biological weapons. On their console television screens, they can flash up-to-the-minute weather reports from any area of North America, the status of defensive fighters and missiles, the positions of orbiting satellites and space...
...Kennedy--especially if you go, as I did, as a guest of Life Magazine. Since the first seven astronauts signed a contract to report their stories in Life, the magazine has adopted the space program. While NASA's officials and the astronauts themselves seem a bit embarrassed by space jargon, Life' men talk enthusiastically of "birds," "aborts," and so on. Last spring they had given a party of businessmen a tour of the Cape, Houston's Manned Space Center and some of the country's other space facilities. Impressed by their guests' enthusiasm, they had now invited 25 college editors...
After time off to cover combat in World War II, Woodward returned to the Trib as editor of the sports department. He hired writers of the caliber of Red Smith and horse racing Expert Joe Palmer. He purged his pages of what he called "unholy jargon," banishing such words as horsehide, pigskin, donnybrook, grid battles. When a reporter wrote that someone had "belted a home run," Woodward whipped off his own belt and shouted, "Here, let's see you hit a home run with this." Such was Woodward's pride in his shop that when the managing editor...