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...Army Argot. Medina aided his own cause when Bailey finally put him on the witness stand on the 16th day of the trial. Confident and jaunty, talking in Army argot ("40 mike mikies," "four deuces," "BMNT") for the benefit of the five battle-tested jurors, Medina denied that he had been on the scene of the massacre. He also denied that he had told his men, as Galley had claimed during his own court-martial, to kill everything, including women and children; he said he had merely told them to "use common sense." Medina admitted to killing the woman...
...years after Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind," many Americans have become blase about moon voyages. The technical argot of the astronauts has turned off some early enthusiasts, while the rigorous attention the moon walkers must pay to their inflexible schedules has made them seem like robots. Beyond that, the U.S. has be- come concerned with other pressing priorities: urban decay and pollution, poverty and racial inequality...
...other racetrack ramblings, Margo Argot was seen with Canonero's rider, sexy little Juan Avila, and the tete-a-tete got very close when she found that he was an Aries, just like herself. Some coincidence! Margo, a???ed in the fashion ??ge long pants in the Deanville style of the '30's, hails from the house country of Charlottesville and admits to being "just wild about horses." And their riders we might...
Buckley and Goldstein piously proclaim that their sheet is not just another specimen of sado-sex journalism, but the distinction seems elusive in Screw. The writing style is often prosaic and juvenile, and the four-letter argot is flung against a wide variety of institutions and individuals-among them the New York Times (which once unwittingly carried an ad for Screw), the TV networks, J. Edgar Hoover, Billy Graham and Richard Nixon. On the tamer side, there have been interviews with Joe Namath and Timothy Leary and an in-bed session with John Lennon and Yoko...
...engineering argot is appropriate. According to Garrick, the ski acts as a lever, accentuating the effects of any twisting motion on the leg. Even a slow fall on a beginner's slope can produce a fracture. In fact, it often does. "The typical ski injury," says Garrick, "involves a woman around 18 to 20 who is just beginning. As she makes a turn maneuver on a gentle slope, she goes down in a slow, twisting fall. She feels something snap; she has fractured the shaft of her tibia and fibula, the two bones of the lower...