Word: shorthand
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...troublesome thing happened to the Broadway musical comedy on the way to its beleaguered state: the form became known as simply the "musical." Dropping "comedy" was more than a shorthand simplification. It reflected a rising notion that shows with music should aspire to as broad a range of subjects and as intense an emotional focus as any straight play, and should integrate song, dance and story in an earnest -- often grittily realistic -- performance. This redefinition has yielded some extraordinary work but seems to have almost banished the romantic froth and high-spirited vaudeville that first won the form a loving...
...Chicago courtroom and two similarly equipped courts in Phoenix and Detroit are part of a $75,000 experiment that may determine how the courtroom of the future will be set up. Says Jay Suddreth, president-elect of the National Shorthand Reporters Association, which is sponsoring the test: "Court reporters without computer-aided transcription (CAT) generally dictate their notes to a typist, who then types out the transcript. By linking the court reporters to a computer, we can put such waste and redundancy behind...
...familiar word or phrase. For example, W stands for "with," KR for "consider." These abbreviations are printed on narrow strips of self-folding paper. In CAT systems, the keystrokes are also recorded electronically on a tape or magnetic disk, then fed into a computer that expands the stenographic shorthand into English and prints out a transcript that needs only minor editing...
...playmates took to calling him Doctor. Dan Gooden believes his son's nickname came from an infielder's chatter: "C'mon, Dr. Dwight, operate on him!" Youmans says, "It was just always Dr. D, or Doc." It evolved naturally into Dr. K, the initial taken from the scorebook shorthand for a strikeout...
...this discussion, the periods after the letters SOB have been dropped. It's time. The phenomenon is now in political encyclopedias, and some shorthand is needed. However, Lexicographer William Safire uses periods and even spells out the full words when he explains various forms and subtleties in his book The New Language of Politics. He notes that SOB is "an appellation which creates a furor whenever the public learns that a President of the United States has used...