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Wall Street Journal 3 June 11: A week of homage to secretaries, whom a public poll already had indicated are in the catbird’s seat at the business of snaring a spouse.at in the catbird seat under catbird, n.
Wall Street Journal 3 June 11: A week of homage to secretaries, whom a public poll already had indicated are in the catbird’s seat at the business of snaring a spouse. Wall Street Journal (Eastern edn) 23 Sept. 1/6: The mine manager is a ‘sweetheart’ operator... In the classic ‘sweetheart’ situation, corrupt union leaders accept or extort payoffs from employers in exchange for assuring labour peace or winking at contract violations [OED].at sweetheart contract (n.) under sweetheart, adj.
Wall Street Journal 7 June 4: I gave them a guess of somewhere around $1.5 billion [...] I think they accepted it as a guess. I thought it was a ball-park figure.at ball-park figure (n.) under ball-park, n.
Wall Street Journal 21 July 1/1: Mr. Civerolo and his helper are auto repossessors, or ‘repo men’.at repo man (n.) under repo, n.
Wall Street Journal 8 Aug. 9: Young protesters have picketed S.I. Hayakawa [...] calling him a ‘banana’ — yellow on the outside, white inside — the equivalent of the blacks’ epithet ‘Oreo’.at banana, n.
Wall Street Journal 2 Aug. n.p.: Their feminine ideal is the overblown Barbie Doll with just enough sense to keep her pretty trap shut [R].at Barbie (Doll), n.
Wall Street Journal 28 Nov. 35/2: Colombia has discovered a problem of drug abuse in its own backyard. A cigarette called basuco is appearing on the streets.at basuco, n.
Wall Street Journal 3 Apr. n.p.: Liberal Republicans called Mugwumps defected to his camp [R].at mugwump, n.
Wall Street Journal 12 Nov. 41: Now get ready for the baby busters. They’re the consumers born after the baby boom subsided – from about 1965 to 1974 – and they’re shaping up to be the next hot demographic group.at baby buster (n.) under baby, n.
Wall Street Journal R-7/1: With time to kill and money to spend, teen-age ‘mall-rats’ can’t stay away.at -rat, sfx
Wall Street Journal 29 Mar. in Juba to Jive (1994).at bradys, n.
Wall Street Journal 29 Mar. cited in Juba to Jive (1994) .at posse, n.
Wall Street Journal 21 May 🌐 For decades, of course, New York looked pretty good to black Southerners. In the first half of the 20th century, hundreds of thousands, especially from Georgia and the Carolinas, packed their worldly goods and box lunches and rode the Chickenbone Special out of the Jim Crow South, following the drinking gourd to seek a better life in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant.at chickenbone special (n.) under chicken, n.
Wall Street Journal 13 Oct. 🌐 While official policy was coziness with the House of Saud and Foggy Bottom was dominated by Arabists, there was some degree of tension.at Foggy Bottom, n.
Wall Street Journal letters 6 Mar. A13/1–2: Remember Mike Wallace’s kissy-face meeting with the Ayatollah years ago, There’s Mr. Wallace, kneeling on a pillow, head to the side, gazing up as Khomeini seriously intoned some sort of nonsense. Mr. Rather must have been moved by that scene, because his visit closely paralleled Mr. Wallace’s.at kissyface, n.
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