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...speech before the Authors' Club of London, his lordship charged that America must take the blame for much that is bad in current English. American slang is often "virile and admirable," and his lordship gave his blessings to such terms as bulldozer, blurb, debunk. But he was appalled by the U.S. use of face up to for face, meet up with for meet, check up on for check. "These atrocities are probably due to the influence of German immigrants who did not learn English...
With this precision, Sailer combines not only strength and prime condition, but an astonishing ability to pick the fastest (not always the shortest) route to the finish line. Sailer's word for his technique is Tuschen, a Kitzbühel slang term that may derive from the word for brush strokes in an ink drawing, and somehow seems to fit the smooth, effortless swing down the slopes to an endless list of championships...
...caricature of Edwardian elegance to the zoot padding of a Harlem hepcat. Their hair is elaborately and expensively coiffured in long, wavy styles that range from the "D.A." (for Duck's Arse) to the "TV Roll" and the "Tony Curtis." Their jargon is a mixture of Cockney rhyming slang and U.S. jive talk in which a road is a "frog" (from the phrase frog-and-toad, which rhymes with road), a suit is a "whistle" (from whistle-and-flute), and a girl is a "bird...
...these wide open spaces, Americans are a new species. Mollie Regan, red-haired and illegitimate daughter of one Regan, meets Stanton Laird, oil geologist from Oregon. His rival is David Cope, a "pommy" (Australian slang for English immigrant) who runs a neighboring station, a pint-size affair of about 300,000 acres. Mollie goes off to Oregon with the ice-cream addict, Stanton, but when she discovers that the U.S. frontier has been all softened up by milk shakes and civilization, she returns to the rum and mutton of the Australian never-never to cope with Cope...
...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...