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 ".

* Safire, William.

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 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.

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

Early in January, 1844 he had a conference with Henry and William in New Orleans, and upon learning of Gorham's intention, Henry remonstrated calmly but firmly with his brother.

News of the legislative veto appeared in the New Orleans papers, and Henry and William became incensed by the fact that they had not been told of the attempt in advance.

On March 21, 1845 the bark Bashaw weighed anchor at New Orleans, while on the levee Henry and William Palfrey waved farewell to their father's former chattels who must have looked back at the receding shore with mingled regret and jubilation.

With the announcement of a `` special achievement award '' to William A. ( ( Bill ) Shea, the awards list was completed yesterday for Sunday night's thirty-eighth annual dinner and show of the New York Chapter, Baseball Writers' Association of America, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

The American part of the evening consisted of Paul Creston's Dance Overture, William Schuman's `` Chester '' From `` New England Triptych '' and two works of Wallingford Riegger, Dance Rhythms, Op. 58, and a Romanza For Strings, Op. 56A.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

William Walker ( composer ) | William Walker, the composer who first joined John Newton's verses to " New Britain ", to create the song that has become " Amazing Grace "

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

* 1967 – William Douglas Cook, New Zealand founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Pukeiti ( b. 1884 )

In the United States the first water caterpillar was patented in 1839 by William Leavenworth of New York.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1997.

* William Edelglass and Jay Garfield, Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 0-19-532817-5.

However, in July 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, and Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced the final approval for the New York City Housing Trust Fund derived from $ 130 million in Battery Park City revenues.

* William S. Root, The ABCs of Bridge ( 1998 ) Crown Publishers Inc, New York, USA ISBN 0-609-80162-7

The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.

Prior to 1931, New York Times reporter William Buehler Seabrook, allegedly in the interests of research, obtained from a hospital intern at the Sorbonne a chunk of human meat from the body of a healthy human killed in an accident, then cooked and ate it.

The films Johnny Mnemonic and New Rose Hotel, both based upon short stories by William Gibson, flopped commercially and critically.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

The famous murder of William Davis by strike breakers, and the seizing of the New Waterford power plant by striking miners led to a major union sentiment that persists to this day in some circles.

LaPread left in 1986 and moved to New Zealand, and Reynolds departed for Earth, Wind and Fire in 1987, which prompted trumpeter William " WAK " King to take over primary guitar duties for live performances.