Paul Dickson

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1) The Dickson baseball dictionary

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Hailed as "a staggering piece of scholarship" ("Wall Street Journal"), the new edition of "The Dickson Baseball Dictionary" includes more than 10,000 terms and introduces words and phrases from around the world of baseball. Photographs throughout.

2) Slang!: the topic-by-topic dictionary of contemporary American lingoes

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Dickson, Paul

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This dictionary of some 3,000 terms of current American slang differs from other recent slang dictionaries in at least two ways. First, it is arranged by subject; the terms appear alphabetically under 24 categories - auctioneering, bureaucratese, counterculture, medicine, sports, teenage, yuppy slang, etc. - with a comprehensive index to all sections. Second, it is unique in its use of the Tamony Collection at the University of Missouri (Columbia)...

3) Slang!: the topical dictionary of Americanisms

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Dickson, Paul

4) The Bonus Army: an American epic

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Dickson, Paul

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In the Depression summer of 1932, some 45,000 veterans of World War I descended on Washington to demand the bonus promised them eight years earlier for their wartime service. They lived in shantytowns, white and black together, protested and rallied for their cause. Roy Wilkins saw the model for racial integration here; J. Edgar Hoover built his reputation against the radicals. President Hoover, Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur, and others feared...

5) War slang: American fighting words and phrases since the Civil War

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Dickson, Paul

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Dickson, an authority on American slang, offers an updated edition of his collection of fighting words and wartime phrases that Americans have used from the Civil War to the Iraq War (with a brief overview of the Revolutionary War). Terms and brief definitions and explanations are arranged chronologically by war, revealing military slang at its most colorful, brutal, and ironic, from the Civil War's "red tape" through the Vietnam War's "airborne copulation"...