Word: lingo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 100 state and local police surrounded a church in Selma, Ala., where a mass Negro protest meeting was taking place last night. The law enforcement officials included a special delegation of 50 state troopers under the personal command of Al Lingo, head of the state police...
...Hollywood these days, Club 55 is packing them in. Its parking lot is jammed with expensive and flashy cars. Inside, the crowd is sprinkled with cinema luminaries. But they are not waiting for the floor show. "Club 55" is showbiz lingo for the Hollywood unemployment office, and the attraction is $55 a week, taxfree. Any out-of-work Hollywood toiler, even if he earned a quarter of a million in his last picture and is scheduled to start on a new one next month, can collect his $55 a week during the interim...
ASTRONAUT talk is literally out of this world, and yet it has its own necessary coherence-as shown by the dramatic moments described in this week's cover story on the epic flight of Gordon Cooper. Nowadays everyone from garage mechanics to gospel singers have their own lingo, their own shorthand, and their own vivid phraseology. It might be possible to put out an issue of TIME in the 850 words of Basic English, but to do so would be to leave out an essential vitality in the way Americans do and say things...
Meanwhile, Negroes resumed desegregation activities in downtown Birmingham. Four tried unsuccessfully to obtain service at two white lunch counters. The counters were closed and the four left quietly. There were no incidents. Alabama Public Safety Director Al Lingo said that 100 patrolmen were stationed on the outskirts of Birmingham in case major trouble develops. "We will not take an active part until we are absolutely needed or are called for," he said...
...Like It." So precise is the teamwork that a single mistake by one man can destroy the handiwork of ten. So many are the complexities that connoisseurs argue endlessly in a mysterious lingo over slotbacks, stunters and buttonhooks. Even the innocent are mesmerized. Action piles upon action, thrill upon guaranteed thrill, and all with such bewildering speed that at the end the fans are literally limp. At New York's Yankee Stadium, where 63,000 hardy souls braved sleet to watch the Giants edge Cleveland 17-13, a man turned fondly to his wildly cheering wife. "Honey," he said...