European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the Tarsan stripes january 1981 dont Crown Mouth new Lingo has old roots by William Safire what has become of Mommy and and mom and dad asks Isabelle an irate Mother from we Are be coming a nation of moms and i have been wondering for some time Why my teenage children have been calling me which is the name of an orchestra in my suspicion is that the addition of an s to either mom or pop connotes an irreverent or detached that enables a Young person to address a Par ent in a manner familial vet and the endearments of earlier Are becoming rare they recall immigrant or our parents recollections of their a is used Occa a like from papa is rooted in baby and led to an 1838 citation for meaning a when capitalized and used As the name for someone who is not your refers to a likable Geezer or the grizzled night the declension of filial address begins with a Breezy How zit pops to a More respectful about my to a resigned and resentful going Back up the it is thank i can do it myself to mom can you come Over and babysit to moms if you Are disconcerted by the addition of s to mom and try answering by calling your son sons or your daughter Daugh if they seem Tell them its the new Middle aged Newsweek has been dealing last the newsmagazine wrote As a Kemp Roth will be dialled Back in the Republican controlled Senate As Well As in the says one Well wired congressional tax in the same in a piece on the tax troubles in Massachusetts faced by Edward a Well wired Newsweek writer used it this Way King has dialled Back on his tax Cut pledges and watched his popularity again in that Back in the business David the Reagan Choice to head the office of management and is quoted As saying you dont have to dial Back on the pro but we need to recalibrate All the it was As if somebody hollered Down the Halls of Newsweek this its dial Back the expression has replaced cobble up to to put to emulate the action of a Cobbler As the favored locution at that what is the source of the metaphor according to the reporter who quoted the Well wired tax Rich Thomas his first name is Short for Richard and is not in tended to distinguish him from a poor Thomas on the same the expression is derived from engineering controls when you get too much steam in a you move the pressure dials Thomas does to adding Ive got a hot water if youll dial Back on dial Well All do what we can to recalibrate i was writes Linda Rawson of new to see the word nifty appearing in the Wall Street journal recently where did this word come from and Why is it so popular perhaps you could also suggest an alternative she meant to write alter Nate word or the use in the Wall Street journal was the republicans said it seemed like a nifty Way to upstage the in that the word Means with an overtone of harmless tricks the word is always used in an admiring sense As Graceful or As in a nifty or As a nifty jacket5 worn by the Down stuffed sleeveless Genera according to Bret Harte in nifty was derived from his use you bet your life twas that nifty Short for his Friend Mark Twain picked it up As in innocents at Home in 1882 he was always nifty and so you bet his funeral aint going to be no after a Century in Active the word is deftly slipping out of the Slang category and beginning to insinuate itself adroitly in the informal in its meaning of Excel Lent or very i consider it Slang in its other meaning of it is still and slightly outmoded in its third meaning of Clever nimble in a shifty Way the word has a unique place in the Lan Guage and has earned its informal like the adjective nifty has a feel of deliberate Racines or jazz iness and is used by people who pitch you will find no precise until in fitness reaches the state of being peachy from deep inside the Reagan transition team conies word of strange the people at the Power Center have already adopted the White House favourites in the for those privileged to be copied by receiving copies of and the Power behind which disaster beckons and they Are bringing along a few of their c times across 1 surgeons memento 5 unit of length 8 despot 12 harness part 13 lyricist Gershwin 14 divorce Center 15 above 16 modern n Book 18 sol 20 religious 22 Bronze Money 23 obtain 24 Datum 27 study of god 32 cantors beloved 33 German article 34 born 35 brought together 38 notices 39 strike 40 Long haired of 42 statements of Faith 45 unwholesome atmosphere 49 Star of Shane 50 japanese Sash 52 implement 53 israeli port 54 also 55 Lamb pseudonym 56 Nasty 57 offspring 58 part Down 1 food fish 2 roman statesman 3 love god 4 reiterate 5 Clergyman 6 Wrath 7 Gangway for de god Jehovah 8 journey 9 musical designation 10 presently solution time 23 answer to yesterdays 11 National Flower of England 19 pronoun 21 because to the father 24 tree fruit 25 Ohio College town 26 sex from the chair 28 hasten 29 mythical Shepherd 30 turn to the right 31 affirmative 36 secreted 37 Wii area 38 Hamill or Fleming 41 sloth 42 reticent person 43 lineage 44 inebriated 46 an often 47 Drudge 48 wings 51 derisive sound today crossword 12 15 24 32 35 42 49 53 56 25 43 26 39 22 36 19 37 13 16 27 33 57 28 29 40 45 21 23 41 14 17 52 55 58 34 46 10 30 47 11 31 48 18 Clear Onn tenders dear Ann Landers something you said on to recently caught my a woman asked about a relative who had come to visit for one three months later she was still what should be done you there Are two kinds of people in the world those who impose on and take advantage of and those who allow you somehow these people seem to find each i was so struck by those few sentences i decided to seek coun my therapist said my problem was that i am a Nonas Sentive can you give me More information on this wimp dear Toledo a while Back i printed a description of the assertive and the no Nasser Tive Here it is i Hope it will characteristics of the no assertive per son he confuses the goal of being liked with being he is conditioned to fears of being disliked or he is unable to recognize the difference Between being selfish in the bad sense and in the Good he allows others to Man Euver him into situations he Doest he is easily Hurt by what others say and he feels inferior because he is he limits his experiences and Doest use his Poten characteristics of the assertive person he acts in a Way that shows he respects is aware that he cannot always and accepts his he in spite of the to make the Good lose or he maintains his he feels free to reveal himself this is this is what i think and he can communicate with peo ple on All Levels communication is honest and approx he has an Active orientation to he goes after what he wants in contrast to the passive per son who Waits for things to Hap dear Ann Landers in spite of polite suggestions from my parents and my husbands parents refuse to childproof their whenever we visit i run through the House ahead of my preschool age grab Medicine and poisons and put them out of i am a nervous wreck throughout every because i must keep a constant Vigil Over my Little when i complained to my she your father and i have raised our this is our House and we should be free to live in it As we then she pointed out that when Ever i drop the children off for an she never lets them out of her she will baby sit anytime but i must bring the kids to her this kind of overconfidence scares me to please dont Tell us to Stop vist ing sick dear worried accept their terms or hire a the grand Mas Arent going to change to suit
