Word: nixed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Variety-style metaphor, was its King James. Virtually half the industry's vocabulary was respelled under his jocular hand. Samples: webs (TV networks), fest (festival), biopic (filmed biography), exex (executives), soap scripter (writer of soap operas). His most quoted headline was penned early on in his career: STICKS NIX HICK...
...Nixon Administration has developed a new language-a kind of Nix-speak. Government officials are entitled to make flat statements one day, and the next day reverse field with the simple phrase, "I misspoke myself." White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler enlarged the vocabulary last week, declaring that all of Nixon's previous statements on Watergate were "inoperative." Not incorrect, not misinformed, not untrue-simply inoperative, like batteries gone dead. Euphemisms notwithstanding, the Nixon Administration's verbal record on Watergate is enough to turn ardent believers into skeptics. Some examples of "inoperative" statements from Administration officials who misspoke...
...secretaries shocked management and turned the proposal down. Lisa, who said she did not feel she played any special role in encouraging the secretaries to nix the proposal, was out of her job within the week...
...John Bethel and Bulletin Staff, make Good News Try to trump up some vict're for dear Perla Hewes. Drink up, Levines, there's truth in wine. Hey, Master Peretz, you're doing fine. McGovern. Shriver, drown your woes. We all know that's the way it goes. Dick Nix n Spiro, save your glee For the office party at I.T.T. Cheers to Popkin. Schorseh and Blustein. Applause for BSO and Bernstein. (But maybe that one doesn't rhyme If steen now has the sound of stine) But cheers, no less, you're quite fantastic. For you, Norton Poet...
...President, a sports addict who also knows that the American football bloc is a formidable constituency, came out solidly behind the idea and said that he hopes to sign a bill into law before Con gress goes home this week - a doubtful prospect at this point. In any case, Nix on had made the gesture. In a sense, it was even a grandly selfless move: since the White House telecommunications network can pick up virtually any broadcast in the country, Nixon person ally never has to miss a Washington Redskins game on the tube...