Q: Coiner of "power nap"? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Robin Hamilton]

From: "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>

> It's unlikely that this article (from online Readers' Guide) didn't use
> the word:
>
>
> LARDNER, J. Onward and upward with the arts [Dictionary of American
> underworld lingo]. The New Yorker v. 27 (December 1 1951) p. 101-2+

It's possible that they were persnickety and used the technically correct
term for criminal language -- "cant", not "slang".

            ;-)

Robin

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