Word: jargonized
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...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...
...Suburban Sartre and soap-opera sensibilities are the springs from which three moderns drink in Murray Schisgal's hilarious satire of the chatter of Freudian analysis and the jargon of the theater of the absurd...
...scientist, sharply. For if the struggle of the sick reveals new goals for society in general, it also demands an unorthodox type of psychiatry. In a 1961 Atlantic article, "A Young Psychiatrist Looks at His Profession," Coles protested against tendencies toward narrow definition of psychiatry, rigid technical training, abstract jargon, and deadening theoretical debates. He called for a concern for general human activity, and a recognition of the psychiatrist's own "disorders and sorrows" as essential elements of the profession. To develop a sense of the limitations of the discipline, a sense of humor, and "to offer ourselves freely," -- free...