Word: shorthand
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...reserves that job for himself, endlessly scribbling passages on 4-in. by 6-in. index cards, which he shuffles into new arrangements to vary the standard speech that he delivers at every town hall and country club: he blames some of his fluffs on difficulty in reading his own shorthand...
...Them," "They" are the Opposition, those dedicated to the end of "Christian-style civilization." Society publications usually call them "the Insiders," a form of shorthand. No one ever clarifies, however, who "they" are. Several recent publications offered the following villains: Jimmy Carter, homosexuals, the Trilateral Commission, the CIA, the big oil companies, the Democratic Party, the Ford Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, and most of all, the United Nations. The society itself. McManus points to a huge stack and says these are among the eight million petitions he has ready for distribution with the aim of removing the United...
...Carter for not responding vigorously, but then refused to say what action he felt should have been taken. "He doesn't want his hands tied," says his campaign manager, Indiana Senator Richard Lugar. "He will have to do better in getting across his point of view in a shorthand statement...
...everything out on the table. There's a lot of debate; I think people should be challenged in this business," Cabot says. But, he adds, "You don't have to repeat things. This group has been sitting around this table every day for five years, and a sort of shorthand develops...
...press bus are first come, first serve. More journalists have applied for press credentials than they did for John F. Kennedy's funeral. Everybody is clutching cameras and notebooks and pens and their partners. The archdiocese recruit hands out the text of the Pope's address. All that shorthand for nothing...