Word: shoptalking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Test to Come. Brother officers, in moments of highly confidential shoptalk, have been known to accuse Buckner of possessing too much surface brilliance- a damning indictment in the Army. Much of that criticism may well have stemmed from subconscious envy of Buckner's first-rate vocabulary, which shines with added luster against the background of a traditionally inarticulate profession. His standing with the Army's top leaders is attested by the fact that they have entrusted an army to his command at this stage of the war, when there is no lack of good generals with recent battle...
...this bit of shoptalk between a Fort Bliss cavalryman and his commanding officer made any listener's stomach twitch last week, that was exactly what the U.S. Army wanted...
Since the glider program has been under way, a touch of Tom Swift and His Wonderful Airship has crept into the shoptalk of Army airmen. As of Jan. 1, Army glider pilots, like Army gliders, were rare as four-leaf clovers. Few air experts knew what gliders could do (except for what they had read about Crete). As far as the U.S. public was concerned, gliding was still a game for a few nutty newsreel daredevils around Elmira...
...pivot" (for solicitation from a window). Practically all the unmailable words turn up, along with a tremendous set of their variants and embellishments. So does the surrealist language of drug addicts, the high-heeled dialect of perverts, the likable archaisms of lumberjacks (they still say "whitewater bucko"), and the shoptalk of the stock exchange and of the turf, which significantly share such terms as "sleeper," "tip sheet" and "past performance...
...drug, a thousand times as powerful as sulfanilamide, excited members of the American College of Surgeons, who met in Boston for some clinical shoptalk last week. Other topics that absorbed the 3,000 visitors were the old problem of toughening up healing wounds, the vital question of surgery in Britain...