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...unabridged dictionary reveals how the lingo has changed over the past two decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page November 2, 1987 | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...including the dates when words entered the language and pronunciation and etymological guides at the foot of its pages. Above all, it is up to date. Placed side by side with its progenitor, RHD-I, it provides the best opportunity in a generation to survey the state of the lingo and to chart its recent changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surveying The State of the Lingo THE RANDOM HOUSE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

Gorbachev's ploy: agreeing to accept a long-standing American preference for the elimination by both sides of all intermediate- and shorter-range missiles in Asia as well as Europe. Ironically, that arrangement -- known in the arcane lingo of arms control as "global double zero" -- was first put forward by U.S. negotiators six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Promising Soviet Ploy | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

Boars, Or to put it in Pentagon lingo, GGPAVs (Ground to Ground Porcine Attack Vehicles...

Author: By John M. Glazer, | Title: Boar Wars | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

...this paradox that gives The Sunlight Dialogues its depth. Whereas law and order are fundamentally unjust, but able to survive, protest and chaos are incapable of enduring. Although The Sunlight Dialogues is set in the 1960s and uses the lingo of that decade, Gardner's book is far closer to the nightmare pessimism of Kafka's The Trial or Canetti's Auto-Da-Fe than to the hippie philosophizing of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: The Magic Gardner | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

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