Word: jargon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jargon phrase for this is "the revolution of expectations," and it has resulted everywhere in solutions that do not solve. Poorer nations simply eat more, and either cut down on their agricultural exports or import food. Asia, excluding Red China, now imports about 10 million tons of grain a year. But the result is less foreign exchange in the coffers of most Asian nations, and less capital for needed economic development...
...really enduring lore is the local jargon of dark doings-the terms for playing hooky, teasing, scrapping. The extraordinary thing, report the Opies, is the abiding loyalty of children to prattle that seems "more vastly entertaining to them than anything they learn from grownups." TV will never conquer the favorite jump-rope rhyme of little girls throughout much of the English-speaking world...
...mentally ill are sick, but still people, and they must be treated as people, if they are ever to return to society. For several centuries B.C., some Greek temples were maintained as retreats, where the emotionally disturbed could recover in a calm and restful atmosphere ("milieu therapy" in the jargon of today's psychiatry...
...twists and turns of Cambridge politics have brought an entire series of terms with meanings unique to the community. This glossary of political jargon is intended as a guide to the various landmarks of the Cambridge political scene...
...says. "James is just beginning to move in the direction of the subjective, of `inside experience.' Why is he more popular now than before? I think the reason is that he understood what happens when two people meet. He's the great novelist of `interpersonal relationships', to use psychological jargon...