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...found that "my teacher only taught me strictly formal Japanese when I needed a baseball way of talking." So he has adopted a kind of baseball interlingua. It was not too difficult, for many of Japan's basic terms are taken straight from Abner Doubleday's lexicon: an out is outo, a hit is hitto, a homer is homma and a batter is a batta. Blasin game also mastered such words as massugu (straight), tsuyoku (strongly), yukkuri (slowly) and a lot of what might be called body Japanese. "A tiny gesture from Breiza," explains Hawk Out fielder Shuzo...
...Instant analysis" was thrust into the political-journalistic lexicon in 1969, when Spiro Agnew denounced the "querulous criticism" of "self-appointed [network] analysts" who dissected presidential TV addresses immediately after delivery. Only slightly daunted, the three major networks continued the practice. But in a surprise move last week, Chairman William...
...Nixon man," he says. "I always have been. I guess that makes me a centrist, or just to the right of center." In a relatively humorless Administration, Safire stands out as a wit and phrasemaker. He wrote The New Language of Politics, a droll political lexicon, and is credited with coining the Agnewism "nattering nabobs of negativism...
...congress, scheduled for 1976. A new charter was necessary, Brezhnev said, to take account of "fundamental changes in Soviet society and the world" since the existing constitution was formulated under Stalin in 1936. Brezhnev added that the new constitution would be submitted to a national referendum. In Soviet political lexicon, that does not mean a mass, single-issue vote but usually a few months of grass-roots discussion, which can be interpreted any way the party desires...
...people, columnists have to convince thousands of readers whom they have never met and over whom they exert no real power, that they are worth listening to. Maintaining this posture of authority and importance is often quite a strain, and produces such unusual prose as Jack Anderson's political lexicon of tzars, bosses, hitmen, and the like...