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...S.B.P.P. has aptly obscure origins but appears to come from a Royal Canadian Air Force listing of fuzzy phrases. It was popularized in Washington by Philip Broughton, a U.S. Public Health Service official, who circulated it among civil servants and businessmen. A sort of mini-thesaurus of bafflegab, it consists of a three-column list of 30 overused but appropriately portentous words. Whenever a GS-14 or deputy assistant secretary needs an opaque phrase, he need only think of a three-digit number -any one will do as well as the next-and select the corresponding "buzz words" from...
This useful thesaurus confirms the suspicion that today's political phrasemakers are members of an eminent brotherhood devoted to the preservation of the hoary phrase-curators of the cliche. Even more pertinent is the discovery by Author Safire, a public-relations executive and former campaign aide of Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller and Jacob Javits, that there are many misconceptions about the pedigrees of political bromides. The new language of politics is actually...
...bill," said Roosevelt, "but a tax-relief bill, not for the needy but the greedy. . ." Beyond that, he said, Congress had been sloppy in writing the bill, "using language which not even a dictionary or a thesaurus can make clear...
Simonsen had quite a lot more than imagination going for him. He composed his lessons out of a wealth of experience. After emigrating to the U.S. at 15, he taught himself English by laboriously translating an 800-page Danish novel with the aid of dictionaries and a thesaurus. Later, while studying civil engineering at New York University, he began sailing for recreation, and set out to teach himself seaman ship. During World War II, he was tapped to teach navigation for the Army's Transportation Corps in the U.S. and Australia. After the war, Simonsen sailed as a captain...
...ROGET'S POCKET THESAURUS...