Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uninitiated, air traffic communication in any language all sounds like Greek. Mainly, it is a hyperabbreviated shorthand of letters and numerals identifying sender and receiver and passing on data about wind conditions, altitudes and airport geography. Herewith a typical conversation, in English and French, as it might be overheard by an Air Canada pilot over Quebec City...
...identifications have served as a deeply embittering factor. Observes Ralph Potter, professor of ethics at Harvard Divinity School: "We pick out that factor which puts most things into immediate order for us. Where religion satisfactorily encompasses the whole logic, it becomes the prime identifier. At the same time, that shorthand also traps people into a primarily religious identity...
...Washington sentiment. One is the sense, building for a dozen years, that Washington has betrayed the people, dragging the nation through war and Watergate, CIA and FBI abuses and, to insult the injured, has consistently lied about it. Vanderbilt University Chancellor Alexander Heard puts it succinctly: "Washington is simply shorthand for the unsuccessful part of our past." Now, says Lawyer Charles Morgan Jr., an Alabama-bred civil libertarian, "any good outsider can beat the establishment of elitists whose interest is to keep the people in the dark...
...program produces graduates for whom there are no jobs. More and more, undergraduates are being urged to make career choices early, to keep an eye on the marketplace, and, if they must major in the humanities, to minor in a business field or at least learn to take shorthand...
However, after President Nixon's summit meeting with Brezhnev in 1972, the U.S. press latched onto detente and soon both Kissinger and Nixon were using the word as shorthand to sum up U.S.-Soviet relations. Now, in face of critics like Ronald Reagan, who charge that detente means unilateral concessions to the Russians, Ford has adopted the clumsy phrase "peace through strength...