Word: lingo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social and economic background of CBers is changing rapidly. Once populated mostly by truckers and blue-collar hobbyists, CB land is attracting growing numbers of businessmen and middle-class families who use the sets for safety and information. CB is also a "bodacious" (in CB lingo, super, fantastic) way of relieving freeway tedium-so much so that truckers' use of amphetamines has declined drastically in recent years. Ordinary drivers tend to be as evangelistic about the medium as oldtime gear jammers. "When I'm on the road these days," says New York Businessman Lawrence LeKashman...
...strong leftist political movement during the sixties? Obviously, many of the FBI's maneuvers were crazy and ineffectual, such as the investigation of a teen-age girl who wrote to the SWP for a school project or the bureau's ludicrous attempts to write divisive letters in the "hip" lingo of the Movement. Many liberals would go further and argue that the whole enterprise was basically a simple product of Hoover's obsessions, because none of the groups targeted represented a plausible threat to national security. But if one believes, as I do, that the anti-war movement played...
...memory of the cocksure Hagen still lingers on in the Rochester caddy yard where a handful of regulars troop in every morning to while away the summer days waiting for an 18-hole circuit (or "loop," as it's known in caddy lingo). One of these select loopers is Harvard junior John Bartlett...
...effort to get a large cross section of Radcliffe in their club is ignoring the reason they state as their basic need for a club, that is to steer away from the "fractured" nature of college life by providing a haven where girls of common interests can, in the lingo of liberation, unite. For to say they seek a large cross section of Cliffies by individually drawing up lists of twenty candidates for selection--who are they trying to kid? The final list will not represent a cross section of the female student body, but rather a list of common...
...fewer than 660 votes, out of 108,331 cast, would have changed the outcome), Ford declared he was "delighted" by his first election victory of any kind outside Grand Rapids. A reporter asked him, "Was it like beating Michigan State?" The old Big Ten center laughed and in football lingo indicated that it was much bigger and better: "Oh no, like beating Ohio State...