Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consoles in Mission Control is known as "the trench," because it serves as the front line for the whole operation. Its four blinking consoles are managed by specialists in space dynamics; they report on booster systems, retrofire, flight dynamics and guidance-respectively known in the control room's jargon as "Booster," "Retro," "Fido" and "Guide." Working in concert, they are responsible for propellant tanks, for calculating the exact moment of retrorocket firings, computing maneuver times and keeping track of spacecraft computers and guidance systems...
Behind them are the flight director and planning and operations officers. "Flight" is the captain of the team, the man who makes the crucial decisions. Head flight for Apollo 11 was Cliff Charlesworth, 37. His green team handled liftoff, translunar insertion and the moon walk, known in space jargon as "Extravehicular Activity," or EVA. Charlesworth admits he liked EVA least of all the mission's activities, "because there just wasn't much I could do." Other flight directors for Apollo 11 were Gene Kranz, 35, who wears a white vest to match his team's color; Milt...
Textbook Case. Porphyria was unknown in clinical jargon before the 20th century, and is still not fully understood. It is a group of diseases with many different signs and symptoms. "In some of them the only problem is the undue sensitivity of the skin to sunlight," wrote Professor Abe Goldberg of Glasgow's Western Infirmary in 1966. In others, "the normal life of the patient may be shattered by devastating attacks of abdominal pain, paralysis of limbs, and profound mental upset...
...that the best help for widows can come from other widows. In a sense, he is simply employing the form of help more "primitive" societies take for granted: letting the bereaved relieve their grief by expressing it openly. Zunin sold the idea to his military superiors in the fearful jargon of his profession: "In a situation where commonality of loss of the husband is present, the group can be exceedingly supportive...
...play is a malicious sexual satire about a headmaster who seduces the mistress of the local political chairman. But Kundera gives the work countless double meanings aimed at conformists, informers, party bureaucracy and jargon, the security police and the Russian occupation. Played with snap and brass by a young experimental company, Ptakovina keeps audiences constantly off balance with laughter. But the most resounding applause comes without a laugh when the headmaster tells his own fiancee that he hasn't the heart to be a hypocrite any longer; that "I've lost my second face." "Better find it again...