Word: synonyms
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...class-unless the statistics include "amateur" tennis players who get $9,000 a year from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association for playing on the Davis Cup team, or the track stars who compete for phonographs and TV sets. "Professional" is no longer a term of derogation; it is a synonym for superb. No longer does the golf pro come in the back door of the country club; he may even own the club. The professional baseball player no longer travels coach on a train; he flies by jet. It is no longer a shameful act for a Bill Bradley...
...plans at all and its generally unpopular demand to study whether the price of gold should be raised. Comparing the Six's action to Britain's ill-fated prewar efforts to placate Adolf Hitler, Britain's weekly The Economist fumed: "Munich has once before been a synonym for the unsuccessful appeasement of unreason. It may have become so again...
...term is simply a confusing synonym for a common idea, then it is jargon. However, few if any of the words you attack meet this definition. Instead, you seem to be attacking concepts that you cannot understand without exerting some effort-a common anti-intellectual tactic...
...Philadelphia lawyer" has long been a layman's synonym for a shrewd or conniving attorney. But, last week, a luckless client whose funds had been embezzled or otherwise misappropriated by his lawyer could rejoice if the lawyer were a Philadelphian: the Philadelphia area now boasts the largest clients' security fund in the nation. Financed from association dues, the fund has reserves of $127,000 and it has paid claims amounting...
...formidable roll call notwithstanding, Scouting today suffers from an ill image. The very name-Boy Scout-is practically a synonym for sissy, goody-goody, square. "Be Prepared" has degenerated to a Tom Lehrer double-entendre; the descendants of Lord Baden-Powell are dimly imagined by contemporary cynics to be a rustic army of bug-eyed idealists. Scripture that commanded pious respect when the Boy Scouts were chartered by Congress 50 years ago now seems laughably quaint. "If you notice a Scout badge on a boy's coat lapel," the Boy Scout Handbook still bugles, "give him the Scout salute...