"Man up" pops up in 1961 (UNCLASSIFIED)

Thu Nov 24 22:59:45 UTC 2011

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

> And Stephen King is at lease cognizant of anachronisms, because the
> protagonist gets caught out as a time traveler because he has used a
> few.

May we just say that this is how we ended up with "the whole nine
yards" and be done with it?

Happy Thanksgiving (and Black Friday) to all.

-- Bonnie

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