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host: we ve been talking with tim gay, author of assignment to hell. thanks, tim. guest: thank you very much, appreciate it. next on booktv, paul dickson presents a collection of words popularized by american presidents. the author s collection includes warren g. harding s founding fathers invoked during his 1920s presidential campaign, theodore roosevelt s use of the word muckraker in a speech critical of specific journalists, and military industrial complex delivered by president eisenhower during his final presidential address to the american public in 961. 1961. this is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you very much. i ve been playing around with words for a long time, and i think when i was a kid, one of my i wasn t that athletic, and i wasn t that, you know, smart in various ways, but i could always go home and memorize a couple words, so i would learn words like ap nettic and things like that apathetic, you know, which for the third grader was a l
HaitiVietnamRepublic-ofNew-yorkUnited-statesGermanyMissouriPhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaKing-arthur-courtTennesseeSonoma book of world records and in those days in order to get in the guinness book you had to or push a painted across iowa with your nose. when i d looked in the guinness book i came upon a word that had the most meaning in english which was set in for. it had 137 meanings. but it was one of the words with the most meanings. the soft underbelly of this book was language and words so i started working on a collection of words and i have now gone through seven or eight collections and in fact there are people in this room who have added to the collection in the last 72 hours. we are now up to almost 3000 words. what was interesting about it was it was not meant to be a celebration of what is a social ill but it was to show the phenomenal sort of what the english language is. and what really got to me was looking at all the people that collected a list of drunkenness from their time. tom paine benjamin franklin ambrose bierce edmund wilson had all been sort of fascinated by the fa
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