Cold War; Shapiro's "hotly awaited tome"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

> FWIW, the Orwell quote is in the OED, which renders a bit
> foolish both Safire's big "1947" discovery a few weeks
> ago and the heroic discovery of the Orwell quote by the
> political historian (or whatever) in this week's column.

The Orwell usage of "cold war" is one of the best modern citations found
by the OED Supplement in the 1960s or early 1970s.  I have known about it
for decades, but first found out about it from the OED.

Fred Shapiro


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