Jorge Arbusto n.— «Escuche hoy en la man~ana que el sen~or Jorge Arbusto firmo esta man~ana el tratado en la casa blanca.» —“Re: NAFTA” by Ernesto Alvarado Usenet: soc.culture.mexican Aug. 12, 1992. (source:...
JND n.— «Many people can detect a change of only one dB, which in engineering parlance goes by an interestingly non-jargon, non-technical term called the JND, or Just Noticeable Difference.» —“Home Sense” by Mike...
money ball n.— «It reamins to be seen whether coach Dick Motta, having put together a stronger bench, can get consistently superior efforts from Elvin Hayes and Phil Chenier now that the name of the game is Money Ball.» —“It’s a...
plyometrics n.— «He set up the entire workout for the football team before the summer, introducing the players to plyometrics, a weight-training concept he learned from the Soviets that emphasizes muscle speed and quickness.» —“It’s...
haltura n.— «This last depicts a theater troupe’s desperate attempts to take a draft of a new play and, with only 20 minutes preparation, present it to the government censor for approval. As it happens, this drama about a revolution on a...
tick-tack n.— «The lads who fondle the ticktack clocks—when most of us are warming feathers—slip me this as the “best sprinter at Coney Island.”» —“Collyer Gives Sprinter Chance” by Bert E...