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...reply, O'Neill said to Carter, "The word confrontation doesn't exist in the lexicon on Capitol Hill, at least for the next six months." Republicans also had warm feelings about Carter during his first week, but House Minority Leader John Rhodes warned that their honeymoon with the new Administration might be short. Said he: "Carter's thrown so many dead cats around that we've got to start picking up a few of them." Republicans are especially upset with Carter for pardoning Viet Nam-era draft evaders and promising to cut the defense budget...
...aggression, will never raise the sword against other nations." He then stressed that "it is necessary to complete [the SALT agreement] in the nearest future ... Time will not wait." Repeatedly, Brezhnev used the word razryadka (relaxation), evoking that old familiar term detente, which Gerald Ford banished from his political lexicon last year...
...vetoes are fighting the growth of the federal bureaucracy?as well as inflation. He endorses the traditional Republican position that the Government should meddle less in the affairs of the citizenry. Carter wants to make federal programs more efficient and "compassionate"?a favorite word in his political lexicon. He vows one of his first missions in the White House would be to root out Washington's "horrible bureaucratic mess" by reducing some 1,900 federal agencies to about 200. Just how he would accomplish this wonder he has not said...
...torturer's lexicon also includes mordant, mocking names for their techniques and instruments. The Wet Submarine, for example, means near-suffocation of a prisoner by immersing him in water, or, frequently, urine; the Dry Submarine is the same thing, except that a plastic bag is tied over the victim's head to deprive him of oxygen. In the Grill, the victim is stretched out face up on a metal frame while a "massage" of shocks is delivered to various parts of the body. A Brazilian invention called the Parrot's Perch is used in many countries; it consists...
...vocabulary of some 750,000 words-the world's largest and richest-the language of Shakespeare and Spiro Agnew provides enough terms to offend almost everybody. Those most recently and publicly irked are the feminists. The mother tongue, as they have argued for some time, is a lexicon of male chauvinism. For years the language has evolved along the lines preferred by the male-controlled society that used...