William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary of American Slang considers the usage " metaphorical or perhaps proverbial, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term ", and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage.

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 field-effect transistor was first patented by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld in 1925 and by Oskar Heil in 1934, but practical semi-conducting devices ( the JFET ) were only developed much later after the transistor effect was observed and explained by the team of William Shockley at Bell Labs in 1947.

A March 1906 Scientific American article by American hydrofoil pioneer William E. Meacham explained the basic principle of hydrofoils.

As early as the 17th century, William Harvey had already discerned the existence of the Ductus Arteriosus and explained its relative function.

However, Nimoy would express relief in later interviews and appearances that when he explained the concept to William Shatner, he understood it immediately, and Nimoy credits Shatner's reaction to the nerve pinch in the episode as what really sold it.

A 1997 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law article by three law students explained the legal rationale for the " three-state strategy ":

However, the political side of Soviet military doctrine, Western commentators Harriet F Scott and William Scott said, " best explained Soviet moves in the international arena ".

In modern times an epiphany lies behind the title of William Burroughs ' Naked Lunch, a drug-influenced state, as Burroughs explained, " a frozen moment when everyone sees what is at the end of the fork.

He later explained that he had come to regard as " absolutely necessary a more vigorous policy against the English Government than that which William Smith O ' Brien, Charles Gavan Duffy and other Young Ireland leaders were willing to pursue ".

Mitchel explained how he came to regard as " absolutely necessary a more vigorous policy against the English Government than that which William Smith O ' Brien, Charles Gavan Duffy and other Young Ireland leaders were willing to pursue ".

Thus, as Justice William Rehnquist explained in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, “ The prohibition against discrimination based on sex was added to Title VII at the last minute on the floor of the House of Representatives ... the bill quickly passed as amended, and we are left with little legislative history to guide us in interpreting the Act ’ s prohibition against discrimination based on ‘ sex .’”

In their book Theory of Religion, Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge propose that the formation of " cults " can be explained through a combination of four models:

In 1998, Colonel William Molett, an experienced navigator published “ Due north ?” Molett maintained that Rawlins had put too much significance in erased navigational calculations which can be explained by any number of other reasons, including favorable windspeeds as well as simple human error due to lack of sleep and stress.

" Civil Affairs expert William Sumner, who was tasked with handling arts, monuments, and archives, explained that the postwar Civil Affairs planners " didn't foresee the marines as going out and assigning marine units as security.

Rothermere offered Trenchard the post of Chief of the Air Staff and before Trenchard could respond, Rothermere explained that Trenchard's support would be useful to him as he was about to launch a press campaign against Sir Douglas Haig and Sir William Robertson, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

The term was coined by William Gibson in his story " The Gernsback Continuum ": " Cohen introduced us and explained that Dialta noted pop-art historian was the prime mover behind the latest Barris-Watford project, an illustrated history of what she called " American Streamlined Modern.

However, Sir William Broadbent gave medical testimony that these could be explained by the gravity and nature of the diabetes from which he had suffered.

Edward Jerningham Wakefield, who accompanied his uncle Col. William Wakefield to New Zealand on the Tory in 1839, explained that interspersing Maori with white settlers would help them change their " rude and uncivilised habits ".

Boucher was writing radio scripts in the late 1940s, but he left dramatic radio in 1948, as he explained to William F. Nolan, " mainly because I was putting in a lot of hours working with J. Francis McComas in creating what soon became The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

* In 1966 he appeared on William Frank Buckley, Jr .' s Firing Line, where he explained his views on poverty, while also engaging Buckley in debate regarding government attempts to address poverty and its consequences.

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist explained that " States historically have been sovereign " in the area of law enforcement, which in the Court's opinion required narrow interpretations of the Commerce Clause and Fourteenth Amendment.

" Later, she looked " adoringly " at William when he explained how to hand out flowers to the children who had gathered to get a glimpse of the royal family outside the church.

William Ferrel ( 1817 – 1891 ), an American meteorologist, developed theories which explained the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation cell in detail, and it is after him that the Ferrel cell is named.

In A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things ( 1901 ), Hubbard explained his Credo by writing " I believe John Ruskin, William Morris, Henry Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Leo Tolstoy to be Prophets of God, and they should rank in mental reach and spiritual insight with Elijah, Hosea, Ezekiel and Isaiah.

The idea of ' public presumption '," he explained, " is akin to William McNeill's notion of ' public myth ' but without the negative implication sometimes invoked by the word ' myth.

" Treasury Secretary Morgenthau explained that he examined the taxes of William Randolph Hearst and actress Marion Davies and " advised FDR to mount a preemptive attack on both her and Hearst.