Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entries in the bulging lexicon of international diplomacy are so freighted with emotion and precise, almost lapidary meaning as the code words and phrases dealing with the Arab-Israeli dispute. As Jimmy Carter has learned, a slip in the use of the Middle East's special shorthand can cause rumblings round the world. Some key terms...
...what Day by Day is about. This is a departure for Lowell, and the reasoning behind it is autobiographical. In his confessional poems, Lowell has always been acutely conscious of his years: they defined him historically, located precisely the jumping-off place for his memories and served as a shorthand index for the variety of personal experience he was likely to undergo...
Defining it, summing it up is difficult. There are no labels, slogans or catch phrases that will do. Yet that sort of political shorthand has meant a lot over the years to Americans forever seeking a focus for their hopes...
...they had been bagged on safari. Simple-minded Straw (Donald Warfield) tends the bodies with gentle piety. Others deal in raw humor or are narcotized by whores. The linchpin of the play is Micah (John Heard), a college boy for whom Nam, as they call it, is agonizing shorthand for the delayed initiation rite of manhood...
CERTAINLY, MANY QUALIFIED minority applicants would have applied for the allegedly non-secretarial position, if they had known the post entailed minority admissions work. If the charges are true, then describing major qualifications for the job as typing, shorthand and filing skills was a deceptive and insulting attempt to hinder the prospects for GSAS minority recruitment and admissions...