Word: shoptalking
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Like horseplayers, cockfighters are apt to defend their sport on the ground that they are "improving the breed." Their shoptalk is spiced with argument on the merits of reds, doms, warhorses, and other leading breeds. But the lure of the main time & again is not that academic; it is the vicarious thrill in a bloody contest that gives and asks no quarter...
...London's tradition-laden Inns of Court.* The Inns are not only professional societies which have the power to admit lawyers to the bar, or ban them. They are also schools where law students mingle with practicing lawyers, share their common rooms, libraries, dining halls, listen to their shoptalk. Last week, this idea in legal education found its way to Texas in the form of a new $2,500,000 Southwestern Legal Center at Southern Methodist University...
Last week Dr. George Gallup's Audience Research, Inc. (which has been studying the popular appeal of movies for about nine years) served notice that Mr. Hooper would have to move over in the radio field. Hereafter, sponsors will be supplementing their shoptalk about Hooperatings with a stunning new trade term that Dr. Gallup calls E.Q. (Enthusiasm Quotient...
Philip spent hours along the Moray Firth soaking up the shoptalk of fishermen and boatbuilders. At night he would stand watch with coast guardsmen in their lonely huts high over the harbor. As a scholar he was only fair, but when he left school after four years he took with him the highest honor for seamanship...
...TIME [Feb. 17], how are the "200 earnest characters" who met for "shoptalk about sterility" (p. 56) like the "characters [who] paid 50? to get in" to "sleazy Stillman's Gym" (p. 61)? Or like the "characters not out of the stock-type catalogue" (p. 64) ? Or like the "characters in Chet Shafer's guileless anthology...