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[James A. Landau]

Poo-Bah

from Watergate: "follow the money", "what did you know and when did you know it?" plus all those neologisms ending in -gate

grapes of wrath.  also two of Bruce Catton's books on the Civil War were entitled "Never Call Retreat" and "Terrible Swift Sword"

house divided

damn the torpedoes

summer soldiers and sunshine patriots

relativity and relativistic

survival of the fittest

with all deliberate speed (from Brown vs Board of Education)

Roe (short for Roe vs. Wade, note that "Mary Roe" is a legal pseudonym)

safety net (meaning social welfare laws, popularized but probably not invented by Reagan)

robot

grok

troika meaning "triumvirate"

- Jim Landau

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