Word: lexicon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile, the peasants who own their own farms (kulaks, in the Soviet lexicon) balked at selling grain to the state at a loss. Farmers, asked why wheat was still stacked on their fields, shrugged and said they just had not got around to it. Said one blandly: "We have plenty of time...
...lexicon of champions, fun and games are strictly separate. Big-time tennis is fun to watch, but not to play. Two little rectangles of grassy ground - one in a suburb of London, the other in a suburb of New York - have seen more championship and less fun than any other spots in the world. Near one of those rectangles (not on it, for it was being kept sacred for the tournament), scores of intent young men, dressed in white shorts and short-sleeved shirts, were leaping, sprinting, and hitting the ball for all they were worth. They were practicing...
...Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Lake Erie village of Fisherville (pop. 2,200), the answer is no. Nowhere in their prayers or ritual, he told his congregation in a sermon, do Masons make mention of Jesus Christ.* Furthermore, he had come upon a passage in a Freemason lexicon that defined the Bible as a "symbol of the will of God." Pastor Bauer concluded that such teachings were unChristian. He challenged lodge members to disprove his charges...
...Pravda grunted, digging deep into the Stalinist lexicon of euphemism, was by-ah, yes!-"ideological demotion...
Babel to Eden. In quiet Havana, distant from the main stream of events, 53 nations last week signed and tossed into history's lap a weighty compact. Typically, the nations' delegates were apt to speak not of "free trade," but of "freer trade." In the smudged lexicon of economic diplomacy, "freer" meant less free, not more free. The term indicated that the best anyone could hope for was a slow, gradual removal of the tangled barriers, prohibitions and nationalist restrictions. At Geneva last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade...