Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vulgar snafu derivatives may have been American in origin . . . but acceptance and widespread dissemination of their useful addition to Anglo-Saxon idiom was peculiarly British and essentially Eighth Armyish. Your correct if prudish definition of snafu as "situation normal, all fouled up" is a reminder that there were exclusively British ascending and descending degrees of snafu. There was the "self-adjusting snafu" and the "non-self-adjusting snafu." And there was the climactic "cummfu," which, roughly translated, meant "complete utter monumental military foul...
...magazines and the Telegraph, Kemsley held on to all the other 31 newspapers. Kemsley's dailies, with a circulation of 3.300,000, still account for almost half Britain's total provincial readership, while his Sunday Times, famed for its cultural sections, and his Daily Graphic, appealing to vulgar or common-man tastes, give him a circulation of 1,300,000 in London...
...what outraged Gina's counsel most was that Writer de Boccard, in referring to Gina's bosom, repeatedly used the word zinna, which is "vulgar language of the tavern, its precise meaning referring to the udder of a quadruped." This was "an attack on the reputation and honor of the actress, the woman and wife . . . because it violated all Italian tradition that calls for special respect to a woman, especially to a married woman." Furthermore, read the charge, this was "generic and specific defamation...
...inexpensive way of breaking down a social reserve that might be unshaken by the very darkest grey flannel, but with this break down the entire fabric of social dency and respectability is torn into shreds all for the sake of letting out a few miserable frustrations and filling a vulgar tradesman's coffers...
...would curse: "Espèce d'existentialiste." Existentialism became a familiar tourist attraction, like the Folies-Bergere. Sartre, increasingly successful and respectable, occasionally deplored the popularizations of his fad-he even felt compelled to move out of his favorite café, the Flore, to escape the tourists' vulgar stares. Last week existentialism took its ultimate step to solid respectability. The dignified Collège de France elected Existentialist Philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty-an old school friend of Sartre's-to its coveted chair of philosophy...