"88," White Power for "Heil Hitler"

[Dennis R. Preston]

>Fred,

Can you give me one such early cite so I can send it to the people involved>?

Thanks,

dInIs

>On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>
>>  What, however, is the etymological fact (if we know)? In the back of
>>  my mind lurks a military-explosives origin, not a sexual one.
>
>The context of the earliest citations is clearly a military-explosives
>one.  It is also worth noting that the phrase was originally "a bigger
>bang for a buck" rather than "more bang for the buck."  To my ear the
>former phrase lends itself less to a sexual interpretation than the
>latter.
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
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