European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes monday. December 7,1987 Mem Mimi. ouf fhe clearance Mgo the of clearance specifically the Lingo of obtaining prior approval has never been exam Irtle by . Thai vacuum in philology will be link a today. Check him out is the command ruffed Hyop exec Utu i to aides before an appointment is made or a nominee is announced will he pass a full Liem asks an assistant who Nuch prefers to be described As a key this is a shortening of what the Federal Bureau of invest Calls a fall Reid investigation an inquiry thai is run on All presidential appointments and on people Perm 11 led to Sec classified information. It can occupy agents in All 51 Field offices and Lake up to a month is in contrast to one of their Yii ick looks which is called a name Check and is run for some Federal agencies As Well As stale and local government that require such criminal checks by statute. Let us assume the intent it to Check political rather than Security or criminal considerations. When Frank Man Kicic. Then a Ley aide to democratic candidate Gorec s. Mcgovern. Was asked 10 Cheek Olsen. Thom As f. Taghon he did no ask As reported Are there any skeletons in the closet instead he asked have you done anything thai you think could give us trouble a procedure he described As during t cold Eye. Mankiewicz reports that the phrase he now hears is scope firm our perhaps derived from a radar screen. John . In the watergate hearings said he went off my screen"1 in journalism to be off the screen is the same As out of pocket thai is not to be reachable by the desk editor. Conversely to scope someone out Means to examine someone closely on the in advertising pretesting redundant was described As running it up the flagpole to set if it a airs presumably meaning to see if the Emblem rated a Salute. And in Bureau Carlese the Standard verb phrase for absolute prior approval is sign off on with which one s Keister is safely covered. In politics however one colourful Slang phrase used frequently by insiders rarely sees the Light of print run the traps. It has a general meaning of Survey those in the know and when i asked then Navy Secretary John f. Lehman or. If he had heard of some development he said beats me but i d ran the traps and get Back to the phrase is tilling a void in clearance Lingo n the Washington Post David Hoffman and Lou Cannon wrote about a Hasty selection of a press officer by Nancy Reagan and United slates information Agency director Charles z. Wick when the appointment stirred controversy the reporters quoted a senior White House official As saying it was done quickly and without running the usual a search by computer of All the newspaper files putting together the words Nin and raps turns up Only an unrelated football term running a trap play which is Sel Dom defined on sports pages but Means the technique of kiting an opposing lineman penetrate the line and then blocking him from the Side As the running Back goes through the place i he charging lineman shooting some second cousins by James j. Kilpatrick when writers go Hunting in the Field of language we ought to keep one aim in mind we ought to shoot for the exact word and not for its brother or sister. Lately some horrid examples have come along from writers who bag second cousins. Some of these examples arc a couple of years old but All of them Are instructive. The Las vegas review once asked gov Richard Bryan about his conversation with the chairman of the state gaming commission. I think our conversation should remain Anonymous the governor said. My own experience extends to Anonymous letters and Anonymous spokesmen but an Anonymous conversation is out of Bounds. The Sord nauseous gives trouble. In his novel lie Down with Lions Ken Folly la wrote thai after a while the smell of the prison began to make Jean Pierrr one of inc wire services reported in october that Billy Carter the former president s brother had been released from a Hospital but once Home he became nauseous and was Webster s disagrees but in each instance the right word was someone who is nauseous is someone who causes nausea a nauseous columnist a nauseous entertainer a nauseous to commercial. On the Mailer of ancestors and descendants let me urge once More with feeling that we get them straight. The Miami Herald carried a headline Over an item from Plymouth mass Mayflower ancestors May change to the Portland oregonian we Learned that Peter Pope a great grandson of a Pope Talbot founder is one of the Lew ancestors of 19th Century Limber Barons still in charge of a Forest Compa ancestors beget descendants it surely would be curious if it were the other Way around. Lei us also get straight on ups and Downs. The san Antonio express news took note of a company that was established in 1933 during the height of the great the Abilene Texas reporter news came to a resounding editorial conclusion we need the president and the leaders of Congress to climb into the trenches and get to my ear tells me that a depression has Depths not Heights and climb by itself Means to ascend to move upwardly. Watch out for to Don and to in Seattle rep. John Miller dressed in shabby clothes and spent a night with homeless people. Headline congressman diffs rags for Street the congressman was donning not doffing. Once before i remarked upon a fashion show 2 which the models doffed bikinis which was not at All what the writer intended. 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