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...reputation for wisdom in his sermons by using such phrases as "Christ-centered" and "faith of our fathers." Another favorite phrase is "holiness unto the Lord. No one has a clue to what this means, but it is one of the most soul-satisfying phrases in the lexicon." References to sin and sinners are always welcome, for they conjure up "images of orgies and black lingerie." Nothing makes the congregation feel so good as singing hymns like C. Austin Miles's In the Garden, which mentions the first personal pronoun 27 times...
...advisory, sent to stage and screen accounts, also included a lexicon of forbidden words and phrases: "cuties, flesh-a-scope, girlie, homosexual, immorality, lesbian, lust, naked, nothing on, nudies, nudist camp, nymphs, party girls, pervert, play girls, professional girls, prostitutes, rape, scanty panties, seduce, skin-a-scope, sex, sex rituals, sexpot, sexsational, strippers, third...
...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...