Word: lingo
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...parts are hard to come by. The squadrons that fly them have had to cannibalize some of their planes in order to keep going. The pilots grouse about their dangers and difficulties, and they fiercely resent the Red sanctuaries beyond the Yalu, but they are very "tiger" (Air Force lingo meaning "eager to fight...
...Digging Me, Daddy?" Author Ellison's Harlem scenes are done with dash and flavor, and the lingo is right: "Well, git with it! ... You digging me, daddy? Haw, but look me up sometimes, I'm a piano player and a rounder, a whisky drinker and a pavement pounder. I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em." Author Ellison knows all about the mountebanks and charlatans, political and otherwise, who prosper in Harlem, and his examples (especially Ras the Exhorter, who fancies himself as a black Messiah) are richly drawn. The book...
...came the Marshall Plan, to set Western Europe's business on its feet. Then came the Schuman Plan, to pool six nations' coal and steel. After that came the Pleven Plan, to give Western Europeans a common army. Last week a new phrase was added to the lingo of international planners: the Green Pool...
Nobody knows how many hot-rod racing fans there are in the U.S., but Robert ("Pete") Petersen of Los Angeles knows their lingo. At 25, he has already made a small fortune publishing Hot Rod and other "hogbear" (real thing) magazines for them (TIME, Feb. 19, 1951). Early last fall Publisher Petersen and his top staff cartoonist, Tom Medley, 31, got an idea: since rodders seem to like their music as hot as their hopped-up engines, why not give them some with real "lowdown, George-gone-all-the-way" hot-rod lyrics...
...this too familiar track, the movie nevertheless shows fairly good form. Avoiding the handicap of a love story, Producer-Scripter Milton Holmes has sparked the film with well-shot racing scenes, and given it some seemingly authentic paddock lore and lingo. Though somewhat young for his role, Actor Holden plays it with his usual skill, and Boots Malone also benefits from an earnest performance-his first in movies-by Broadway's 15-year-old Johnny (The King and I) Stewart...