Word: shorthand
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There are no short, stubby brunettes in California?it is an EPA regulation?so Tiegs' kind of beauty is called, in the shorthand of the business, the California look. It is not simply a matter of height and blondeness and blue eyes. Her cheekbones are set wide under a tanned breadth of untroubled forehead, and the result, by some trick of geometry, is a face whose expressions are astonishingly warm and open. Her great length of shank and neck give a powerful impression of health and muscular strength, and there is a sense of physical well-being conferring a benison...
...earned a master's degree in history in 1947. When he joined the foreign service, he had an eye on a career in Eu rope. After a stint in West Germany, he was transferred to State's Near Eastern and South Asian bureau-NEA in Foggy Bottom shorthand-and given assignments in Damascus and the Syrian city of Aleppo in the turbulent 1950s. While based in Syria, Atherton defied an unwritten State Department rule by taking a vacation in Israel, on the theory that it would help him understand both sides of the Middle East controversy...
...entries in the bulging lexicon of international diplomacy are so freighted with emotion and precise, almost lapidary meaning as the code words and phrases dealing with the Arab-Israeli dispute. As Jimmy Carter has learned, a slip in the use of the Middle East's special shorthand can cause rumblings round the world. Some key terms...
...what Day by Day is about. This is a departure for Lowell, and the reasoning behind it is autobiographical. In his confessional poems, Lowell has always been acutely conscious of his years: they defined him historically, located precisely the jumping-off place for his memories and served as a shorthand index for the variety of personal experience he was likely to undergo...
Defining it, summing it up is difficult. There are no labels, slogans or catch phrases that will do. Yet that sort of political shorthand has meant a lot over the years to Americans forever seeking a focus for their hopes...