Language expert William Safire in his On Language column advocated the use of the word factlet to express a " little bit of arcana ".

The term retronym was coined by Frank Mankiewicz in 1980 and popularized by William Safire in The New York Times.

* William Safire, Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History ( 2004 ) ISBN 978-0-393-05931-1.

Author and political commentator William Safire, in his political dictionary, traced the term " trickle-down economics " ( common in the Reagan era ) to Bryan's statement that some believe that government should legislate for the wealthy, and allow prosperity to " leak through " on those below.

He attacked his adversaries with relish, hurling unusual, often alliterative epithets — some of which were coined by White House speechwriters William Safire and Pat Buchanan — including " pusillanimous pussyfooters ", " nattering nabobs of negativism " ( written by Safire ), and " hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history ".

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The application of the term to specifically nuclear and radiological weapons is traced by William Safire to the Russian phrase " Оружие массового поражения " – oruzhiye massovogo porazheniya ( weapons of mass destruction ).

Even several public opponents of " non-sexist language ", such as William Safire, were finally convinced that Ms. had earned a place in English by the case of US Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro.

In a column on Mitchell's death William Safire wrote, " His friend Richard Moore, in a eulogy, noted that near Mitchell's grave in Arlington National Cemetery was the headstone of Colonel Gregory " Pappy " Boyington, a Medal of Honor recipient, who used to call Mitchell yearly to thank him for saving his life.

The development was originally to be named " Sunnydale ", but William Safire, a friend of the developer, Herbert Sadkin, convinced him to change his mind.

" 07 May 2010 .< http :// www. worthpoint. com / blog-entry / buying-hype-trophy-antiques-collectibles >.</ ref > William Safire claimed that the term trophy wife was coined by Julie Connelly, a senior editor of Fortune magazine, in a cover story in the issue of Aug. 28, 1989 and immediately entered common usage.

Writing in 2005, the New York Times language columnist William Safire attributed the term ( in its modern usage ) to conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan, who wrote on June 1, 2003: I have a new term for those on the fringes of the religious right who have used the Gospels to perpetuate their own aspirations for power, control and oppression: Christianists.

On November 14, 2002, The New York Times published a column by William Safire in which he claimed " has been given a $ 200 million budget to create computer dossiers on 300 million Americans.

However, a wide perception that Hutton had not been punished enough ( for example, the New York Times William Safire claimed that the $ 2. 75 million fine amounted to " putting a parking ticket on the Brink's getaway car "), led several customers to pull their accounts with Hutton, and many of the firm's star performers fled to other firms.

In his review of Garner's Modern American Usage, David Foster Wallace referred to the " Colonel Blimp's rage " of Prescriptivist journalists like William Safire.

* 1978: William Safire, New York Times, " for commentary on the Bert Lance affair.

The idea that voters are susceptible to such effects is old, stemming at least from 1884 ; William Safire reported that the term was first used in a political cartoon in the magazine Puck in that year.

At some point in the past, a sign on the bridge informed travelers, " In event of attack, drive off bridge ", New York Times columnist William Safire wrote in 2008.

William Safire of the New York Times said " His Way ... turns out to be the most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time.

William Safire in his Ode on a G-String quoted the usage of the word " G-string " for loincloth by Harper's Magazine 15 years after John Hanson Beadle's 1877 usage and suggested that the magazine confused the word with the musical term G-string ( i. e., the string for the G note ).

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The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.

Some of their works are considered precursors of archaeoastronomy ; antiquarians interpreted the astronomical orientation of the ruins that dotted the English countryside as William Stukeley did of Stonehenge in 1740, while John Aubrey in 1678 and Henry Chauncy in 1700 sought similar astronomical principles underlying the orientation of churches.

His was one of two books considered likely to win, the other being Rites of Passage by William Golding.

The architecture of the new house is considered to be somewhat dated for its time, being similar in style to the demolished castle of the 1830s, in contrast to the richer forms of Scots Baronial being developed by William Burn and others during the 1850s.

William Reginald Hall, British Director of Naval Intelligence criticized the agreement on the basis that " the Jews have a strong material, and a very strong political, interest in the future of the country " and that " in the Brown area the question of Zionism, and also of British control of all Palestine railways, in the interest of Egypt, have to be considered ".

The use of D. purpurea extract containing cardiac glycosides for the treatment of heart conditions was first described in the English-speaking medical literature by William Withering, in 1785, which is considered the beginning of modern therapeutics. It is used to increase cardiac contractility ( it is a positive inotrope ) and as an antiarrhythmic agent to control the heart rate, particularly in the irregular ( and often fast ) atrial fibrillation.

The Alutiiq language is relatively close to that spoken by the Yupik in the Bethel, Alaska area, but is considered a distinct language with two major dialects: the Koniag dialect, spoken on the Alaska Peninsula and on Kodiak Island, and the Chugach dialect, is spoken on the southern Kenai Peninsula and in Prince William Sound.

Meanwhile, a new threat arose from abroad: Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Frederick William II of Prussia, and the King's brother Charles-Philippe, comte d ' Artois, issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which considered the cause of Louis XVI as their own, demanded his absolute liberty and implied an invasion of France on his behalf if the revolutionary authorities refused its conditions.

Historian and biographer William Hepworth Dixon considered that Bacon's name could be included in the list of Founders of the United States of America.

Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such figures as the mathematicians and physicists James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and the engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch, whose work was critical to the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution throughout Britain.

Widely considered a national hero, William Brown is the most famous Irish citizen in Argentina.

William Godwin can be considered an individualist anarchist and philosophical anarchist who was influenced by the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment, and developed what many consider the first expression of modern anarchist thought.

The most infamous case, which went beyond anything considered acceptable at the time, proved to be that of William de Braose, a powerful marcher lord with lands in Ireland.

Peter W. Edbury, on the other hand, argues that William, as well as the thirteenth-century authors who continued William's chronicle in French and were allied to Raymond's supporters in the Ibelin family, cannot be considered impartial.

Officer William ' Waf ' Frost was considered to be instrumental in quelling the rebellion and was rewarded for his valour with an OBE.

Mary considered such action illegal, and her chaplain expressed this view in a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, on her behalf.

# Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology, by William Whewell, D. D.

# Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology, by William Buckland, D. D.

# Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, considered with reference to Natural Theology, by William Prout, M. D.

The Tempest is considered by most Shakespearean scholars to have been written in 1610 – 11 and inspired by published and unpublished contemporary descriptions of the 1609 Sea Venture shipwreck on the island of Bermuda, and most especially William Strachey's eyewitness report, A True Reportory of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight because of certain verbal, plot and thematic similarities.

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Long Island, New York in the United States became the first large – scale suburban area in the world to develop, thanks to William Levitt's Levittown, New York, which is widely considered to be the archetype of Post-World War II suburbia.

In 1575 the States of Holland even considered demolishing the city, but this proposal was abandoned, after mediation by William of Orange.