Word: lingo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drinks of his home-town drugstore. Last week the Army announced that he will soon get them. Army post exchanges are importing soda fountains, drink-dispensing machines, ice-cream freezers. Also on the way: U.S. civilian soda jerkers, who will teach soldiers and civilian workers the trade, perhaps the lingo...
...Army lingo for identification disk...
...carry no telescoped name like WACs, WAVES or SPARS; they would be Marines. But "women Marines" is a lip-twisting phrase. "She-Marines" (TIME, June 21) was frowned on, too. But the eventual development of some unofficial nickname was certain. Last week the Corps had it: BAMs. In leatherneck lingo that stands (approximately) for Broad-Axle Marines...
Chief Magistrate Henry H. Curran of Manhattan, who writes in his spare time, encountered that horrid word again in a probation officer's report, promptly dashed off one of his publishable letters. In the lingo of social workers, practically all brothers and sisters who are not twins are siblings. "To me," wrote the Judge to all probation officers, "it has a very doubtful sound, dubious, dismal, desperate. . . . How would you like to be called ... a coystrel* or a curmudgeon. . . . Exit sibling...
Newcomers to serious checkers have found that there is more to the game than meets the dilettante's eye. They have learned to call themselves "checkerists," have taken up the game's esoteric lingo, become used to describing moves and successions of moves by the numbered squares on the boards. They even have their private deity: a goddess named Dama (Italian for checkers...