Word: shibboleth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around 2%. Increases of more than 2,000% in Government spending on health and housing in the past decade, declares Nunn, show that the pattern of inflation fits "the real increase in nondefense spending." Observes Oregon Senator Bob Packwood: "Let's lay to rest the shibboleth that we have been chipping away at human resources spending on behalf of defense...
...Arts Project--its achievements, its triumphs, and particularly its non-elitism--is especially important in light of a shibboleth long popular in certain critical circles. Elitism is held indispensable to artistic accomplishment; as John Simon recently wrote, "there can be neither true culture nor true art without elitism...
...been under more or less continual attack from the Christian left for a century and a half. Why the flap then? For one thing, Britain remains fairly conservative. As the book's preface puts it, belief in Christ's incarnation has "long been something of a shibboleth" in England. Besides that, one contributor, Oxford Theologian Maurice Wiles, was for five years chairman of the Church of England's influential Doctrine Commission...
...question has become a shibboleth: Why has the North's most violent resistance to integrated schools arisen in Boston, the place John Greenleaf Whittier called "Christian liberty's chosen home"? Alan Lupo, a onetime reporter (the Baltimore Evening Sun, the Boston Globe) and dogged historical researcher, provides some thoughtful answers...
...religious holidays" claim appears to be a shibboleth in that both Christmas and Good Friday conveniently fall within recess periods...