Word: slanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, Feb. 8, states that "Tiger was folded into Air Force slang by U.S. pilots in Korea; in Asia, the tiger is an age-old symbol of ferocity...
...also an age-old Americanism. The word folded into Air Force slang in Korea from General Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers. General Chennault . . . got his first military training at Louisiana State University where the students are known as Louisiana
...Australia, under the headline CUT IT OUT CHUMS!, the Sydney Daily Telegraph (circ. 310,000) jeered at Fleet Streeters for reporting that the Queen's safety was in danger because of the crowds and the rigors of her tour. Said the Telegraph: "England can disregard these furphies [Australian slang for wild rumors]. The only danger seems to be that the hustling correspondents have had to do may cause them overfatigue due to faulty training. But the Queen, who has been trained for the job, obviously doesn't feel the same strain as apparently besets English journalists puffing...
...recently flown from Limestone Air Force Base in Maine to England in 4 hr. and 37 min.) First, on the day before take-off from Upper Heyford, the three-man, crews went through a two-hour briefing session on what they were supposed to do. Then the "scopehead" (SAC slang for the bombardier-observer who runs the radar and is responsible for putting the A-bomb on target) of each crew withdrew to calculate- his course and study the radar pictures of his plane's target so he would be able to recognize the target by radar...
Tiger was folded into Air Force slang by U.S. pilots in Korea; in Asia, the tiger is an age-old symbol of ferocity...