Word: lingo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lingo around the sports card trading sessions may soon revolve around the names Drury, Farrell and Tracy--at least around this part of town...
...Boston alone there were 200 core members,"Simmons said, using the program's lingo forvolunteers. "They had to turn down 1,000 people.That shows there's a lot of interest out there...
...Clinton's vagueness on spending details gives Bush an opening to brand him an old-fashioned profligate liberal. "Governor Clinton and Congress know that you have caught on to their lingo," Bush said in his speech. "They know when they say 'spending,' you say 'uh, oh.' So now they have a new word: 'investment.' They want to 'invest' $220 billion more of your money -- but I want you to keep...
While most academics fill their books with arcane reference and convoluted lingo, hooks is fresh, direct and comprehensible; she is probably the only feminist theorist and cultural critic who quotes Marvin Aye often as Michel Foucault...
Some activist Lambs prefer to be called by code names by outsiders and often use a paramilitary lingo of "spiritual battle" and "satanic strongholds." One of them, a 34-year-old art school graduate known as "Maid Marian," says the organization is "like a family." But Ann Baker, head of a New Jersey- based pro-choice information and research group, contends that normal families do not practice what she calls "harassment and intimidation." Both advocates and enemies agree that the Lambs are dead serious about their cause. As long as abortion in the U.S. is legal, they will...