Word: lexicon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strove tirelessly to achieve a national consensus, adding two phrases-"Let us reason together" and "I want to be President of all the people"-to the American political lexicon. The consensus, of course, became his on Nov. 3, with the greatest electoral victory since 1936 and the largest percent (61%) of the popular vote ever...
While his wife got started on the family Christmas shopping last week, many an executive scanned a lengthy gift list of his own. Corporate gift giving to contacts and customers, out of favor in recent years after "payola" worked its way into the business lexicon, has been revived by prosperity, the passage of time, and a 1963 Internal Revenue ruling that allows business deductions for gifts of no more than $25 in value. This year, company Christmas purchases are expected to rise 9% and account for the largest part of the $325 million yearly business in corporate gifts...
Subtly or dramatically, Du Pont has made a considerable impact on the nation's language and life. Besides nylon, Dacron and cellophane, the firm has contributed a whole lexicon of names, many of which sound like something right out of science fiction. While a man dons his suit of orlon and his socks of Spandex in the morning, his wife may be wriggling into a Lycra girdle, an Antron slip, Cantrece hose-or the Warner "body stocking," a new fashion rage made of Du Font's stretch nylon...
...Goldwater himself, he let it be known that he was changing his strategy, would no longer discuss "nitpicking issues," from now on would couch his campaign in broad terms of the virtues of conservatism as opposed to liberalism-which in his lexicon comes out as "Socialism...
Freudian expertise has long since reached down through the cocktail party into the children's playroom, but there are still enough happy, balanced, unsavvy five-year-olds around to justify this narrative lexicon of Freudian terms...