Cold War; Shapiro's "hotly awaited tome"

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Didn't I/we find "Cold War" before this?...Fred Shapiro wrote a "hotly  
awaited tome"?
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_http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/magazine/05wwln_safire.html_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/magazine/05wwln_safire.html) 
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Orwell, now remembered mostly for the gloomily prescient novel “1984,” put 
cold war in print one year before  Swope mentioned it. There may be an equal 
coinage find in other famous phrases,  but some equal discoveries are more equal 
than others.  
I planned to end this item with that sly allusion to a famous line of  
cynicism from Orwell’s 1945 “Animal Farm.” It can be found in the invaluable  
Bartlett’s Quotations and has been credited to Orwell thousands of times: “All  
animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” That was his  
satiric play on the ringing “all men are created equal,” written by Jefferson 
in  the Declaration of Independence and reimmortalized by Lincoln in his 
Gettysburg  Address.  
But just to double-check Orwell’s wording, I looked up his “more equal than  
others” line in an advance copy of the Yale  Book of Quotations, the hotly 
awaited tome edited by Fred R. Shapiro that I will  review soon. There was the 
Orwell quote, exactly as in Bartlett’s, but with a  note at the bottom, “See 
Bierce.” I turned to quotations from Ambrose Bierce,  author of The Devil’s 
Dictionary and other works, and there was the antedating  quotation from a 
Bierce article in San Francisco’s Wasp of Sept. 16, 1882:  “All men are created 
equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal  than others.” 

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