Random Note for WOTY: #19

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

Ben took "X Strong" back to 2004 with Lance Armstrong's "Livestrong".  I
distinctly remember a line from the 1974 "Planet of the Apes" TV show.
A human astronaut is helping an ape improve his farm's productivity.  He
shows the ape how to build a better wooden corral fence.  He builds one
and says that it is "lock tight and bull strong."  From Wikipedia, it
would appear to have been the episode "The Good Seeds", which was aired
Oct 4, 1974.

Funny what one remembers from 39 years ago.

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> There was an ADS mailing lis thread on "X Strong" in May 2013. Ben
> wrote up a nice analysis in the Boston Globe and Visual Thesarus:
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> > Date: May 18, 2013
> > Poster:  Ben Zimmer
> > Subject:      Re: "Boston Strong"
> > I wrote a column for the Boston Globe, and a Word Routes followup,
on
> > "Boston Strong" and its predecessors:
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> > http://b.globe.com/strongbz
> > http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/an-army-of-strong-
> slogans
> > /
> >
> > Thanks to Hugo and the other participants in this thread for their
> > contributions.
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> > --bgz
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> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Laurence Horn
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> > On Dec 26, 2013, at 4:56 PM, David Barnhart wrote:
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> >> From the earlier part of 2013: _strong_ applied to the aftermath of
> a
> >> tragedy.  (e.g. Boston strong)
> >
> > When did this start?  ABC World News with Diane Sawyer has been
> running an occasional segment for ages (well before Boston Strong)
> called "America Strong", without any specific aftermath of tragedy
that
> I can think of (it didn't go back nearly as far as 9/11, for example).
> It has more to do with creating jobs in the U.S., buying American,
> avoiding imports, etc.  Well, I suppose you could claim that it's in
> the aftermath of the tragedy of the financial meltdown, but they don't
> make that explicit.
> >
> > LH
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> >> Regards,
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> >> David
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> >>
> >> barnhart at highlands.com
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