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...sorties totaled 20,000, of which more than half were combat missions. In the early days of the war, American briefers gave a misleading impression by lumping all sorties -- including refueling flights and AWACS flights -- together, without disclosing that many were not devoted to "dropping iron," as Air Force lingo puts it. Even so, for sustained intensity the air campaign far outranks any other in history...
...killed by a stray gunshot in less than nine days and the second to perish within the safety of his own home. By the time he was buried last week, yet another child had been fatally shot and three more wounded. The slain children are called mushrooms in street lingo -- as vulnerable as plants underfoot. Their deaths have pushed New Yorkers, already reeling from a daunting inventory of urban ills, to a new depth of despair. "The job of taking back our streets requires an all-out assault on every front," said Mayor David Dinkins. "We must restore confidence...
...constructing genetic mutants, "Goodarzi says. The budding scientist is eager to explain his work in detail, frequently using lingo that few but he and the professor can understand. "It's pretty complicated," he shyly acknowledges...
...whole subculture, complete with a new slang vocabulary, is fast emerging around the sport. Bladers hang out with rollerbuddies (friends) who prowl the asphalt in an eternal quest for greased turf (smooth pavement) and try to avoid rollerblood (injuries) at all costs. But remember: in rollerblade lingo, cobblestone is a dirty word...
...publishing trade, these catalogues have a special term, but I do not know it, as I do not work in the industry. I guess the catalogues have some colorful term such as "a screamer" or "a gripper." Somewhere, at a big publishing house where they know the lingo, I imagine a middle manager crying, "Jeezus, Larry, have you seen the spring gripper from Random House? They're going to roll us up, smoke us, and blow us out the chimney this year...