Word: slanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what competition is." Nate Twining had right back at him. "I wish," he said, "that Mr. Khrushchev would appear before Congress and tell Congress the Soviet Union wants to compete with the United States . . . The U.S. needs competition. Right now we are not even at half blower [airplane slang for half power]." Replied Khrushchev: "They won't let me in." That caused gay laughter...
...Brooks spelled out his call for 25 prisoners to receive injections of human cancer cells in both arms, and concluded: "Anyone interested in volunteering for research on our yet most baffling problem of our age is requested to send a 'kite' to Warden Alvis." Kite is prison slang for a note, and last week Warden Ralph W. Alvis got 120 of them from convict-volunteers...
...gets caught. Few realized how great a premium this risk placed on student ingenuity, however, until last month, when waggish José Antonio Suárez, the students' cultural-activities boss at the University of Barcelona, organized a public exhibition of chuletas. A chuleta (literally, cutlet) is academic slang for a crib note or, by extension, any cribbing device. Opposed by the University of Barcelona's brass, Suárez went ahead on his own. He proposed anonymity and return of chuletas to all exhibitors...
Pierre Poujade. with his kinetic oratory and his toilet-wall slang, has better than anyone else harnessed the French citizen's growing discontent with the Fourth Republic. He seized attention by his fight against taxes, but his popularity reflects a deeper discord in the France of 1956. That discontent became hurtful with the loss of Dienbienphu. agonizing with the rebellions in Tunisia and Morocco. Now, confronted with the crisis in Algeria, the Fourth Republic faces a crisis in the existence of the parliamentary system itself...
...Federal Reserve discount rate, now at 2½%) to 5½% - highest since the depression days of 1932-in a move to tighten the supply of borrowable money. Now he jumped on the British consumer, who has been enthusiastically snatching up goods on the "never-never" (British slang for the installment plan). The minimum down payments on cars, TV sets, radios, dishwashing machines and photographic equipment were raised to 50%. To slow down industrial borrowing, he increased down payments on capital goods to 50%, with a maximum two years' repayment time...