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'''U.S.D.D.'''<br />
United States Department of Defense
===Endnote 110 · Hal and Orin Discuss Québecois Politics===
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'''Hush Puppy'''<br />
a [http://www.hushpuppies.com/en-US/Main.aspx brand name] of shoes
'''squeegeed'''<br />
cleaned with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeegee squeegee]
'''truncated'''<br />
cut short
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'''R&R'''<br />
Rest and Relaxation
'''ex officio'''<br />
Latin: by virtue of one's office
''''The Yellow Rose (of Texas)''''<br />
Dickinson's poems can also be read to the meter of "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
'''falsetto'''<br />
a man's voice when he pitches it falsely high to sound like a woman
'''riffling'''<br />
turning pages quickly
'''Ample make this bed'''<br />
The full poem is [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1337.html here].
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'''quotidian'''<br />
commonplace
[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]
'''pistil'''<br />
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs
'''Sikorski'''<br />
C.T. is probably comparing the bee (which flies) to an airplane (which also flies) produced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft Sikorsky Aircraft].
'''paucity'''<br />
scarcity
'''swotted'''<br />
studied intensively
'''wakked'''<br />
I have no idea.
'''unperspicous'''<br />
not clearly expressed or presented
'''penultimate'''<br />
second to last
'''whingeing'''<br />
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")
'''xerophagy'''<br />
eating of bread and water only
===Endnote 110d===
'''anti-sclerotic'''<br />
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)
==Page 1006 (cont'd)==
'''maunder'''<br />
to talk incoherently or aimlessly
'''Solecism'''<br />
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage
'''and c.'''<br />
et cetera
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'''20 X 25 centimeter'''<br />
very close to 8" x 10"
'''Jethro Bodine'''<br />
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]
'''proviso'''<br />
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification
'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."'''<br />
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, also known as verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Marry Had a Little Lamb."
'''dink'''<br />
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net
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'''obverse'''<br />
the more conspicuous of two possible choices
'''seraphic'''<br />
like an angel
'''lascivious'''<br />
appealing to sexual tastes
'''mesmerized'''<br />
hypnotized
'''skitter'''<br />
to move rapidly along a surface
'''knight-errant'''<br />
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry
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'''Ainsi'''<br />
French: so to speak
'''breviary'''<br />
a prayer and hymn book
'''"Kitchens and heat..."'''<br />
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen
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'''Gloeckner'''<br />
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English
'''3-kilo'''<br />
a little over 7.25 pounds
'''Snuff'''<br />
chewing tobacco
'''Andover'''<br />
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both presidents Bush
'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."'''<br />
which is to say, not at all
==Page 1011==
[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]
'''R.C.M.P.'''<br />
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
'''Nelson Eddy'''<br />
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.
'''Droll'''<br />
whimsically comic
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'''nanomicroscopy'''<br />
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope
'''Thevet'''<br />
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer. Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.
'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."'''<br />
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.
'''Boswell'''<br />
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.
'''E cup'''<br />
a very large breast size
'''acuity'''<br />
acuteness of perception
'''in utero'''<br />
in the womb
'''thalidomide'''<br />
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs
'''Condé Nast'''<br />
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher
'''deform'''<br />
here meaning simply "to spoil"
'''persona'''<br />
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.
'''''du'''''<br />
French: of the (masculine)
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'''Meech Lake'''<br />
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec
'''Parizeau'''<br />
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.
'''Charlottetown'''<br />
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]
'''Crétien assassination'''<br />
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.
'''Francophonic'''<br />
French-speaking
'''Acadian Zionism'''<br />
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations
'''Toujours'''<br />
French: always
'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."'''<br />
French: English is not spoken here
'''Ottawa'''<br />
the capital of Canada
'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."'''<br />
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.
'''Winnipeg'''<br />
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba
'''flux'''<br />
frequent change
'''appalled'''<br />
dismayed
'''UV-booth'''<br />
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.
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'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"'''<br />
French: Us versus the majority always
'''Lesotho'''<br />
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa
'''SOUTHAF'''<br />
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.
'''antebellum'''<br />
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War
===Endnote 110h===
'''Gallic'''<br />
French
==Page 1014 (cont'd)==
'''Anglophone'''<br />
English-speaking
'''Plains of Abraham'''<br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French
===Endnote 110i===
''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages''''<br />
French: The War of the British and the Savages
'''Ticonderoga'''<br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga
==Page 1014 (cont'd)==
'''Booty'''<br />
treasure taken from a defeated party
'''1759'''<br />
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.
'''NAFTA'''<br />
North American Free Trade Agreement
'''Rubensian'''<br />
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women tended to be plump.
'''retardate'''<br />
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person
'''rapacious'''<br />
ravenous
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'''lissome'''<br />
supple
'''Rubensophile'''<br />
See above, Rubensian.
'''gulag'''<br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union
''''ce pas?'''<br />
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"
'''Anbesol'''<br />
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain
'''flanges'''<br />
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."
'''Rue Sherbrooke'''<br />
a road in Montreal
'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day'''<br />
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]
'''anaerobic'''<br />
thriving without oxygen
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'''weedy'''<br />
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation
'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras'''''<br />
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
'''The ''Noie Störkraft'''s? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?'''<br />
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.
'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan'''''<br />
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]
'''P.E.T.A.'''<br />
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]
'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph'''<br />
See right.
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'''subjoin'''<br />
to append to the end of something
'''attendant'''<br />
consequent or concomitant
'''cloracne'''<br />
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]
'''olfactory hallucinations'''<br />
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there
'''machete'''<br />
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]
'''Infant-depredations'''<br />
preying on babies
'''phenols'''<br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]
'''Fundy'''<br />
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]
'''straw-and-camel'''<br />
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back
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'''Docksider'''<br />
a type of boat shoe
'''full-toll'''<br />
i.e., it takes its full toll on you
'''Constantine'''<br />
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome
'''merde'''<br />
French for "shit"
'''cartographic'''<br />
having to do with maps
'''parliamentary wigs'''<br />
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.
==Page 1019==
'''bone of dissension'''<br />
Orin means "bone of contention."
'''desmirched'''<br />
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"
'''re-gerrymandered'''<br />
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.
'''Cuibono'''<br />
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"
'''swivet'''<br />
a state of nervous excitement
'''D-bases'''<br />
databases
'''falcate'''<br />
to curve like a sickle
'''Albertan ultra-rightists'''<br />
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.
'''Duluth'''<br />
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities
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'''Vichified'''<br />
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis
'''Anschluss'''<br />
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.
'''mayhi'''<br />
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."
'''P.Q.s'''<br />
members of the Parti Québecois
'''P.M.'''<br />
Prime Minister (of Canada)
'''''aller, partir'''''<br />
French: to go, to leave
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'''hapless'''<br />
here meaning haphazard
'''botulizing'''<br />
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]
'''jaunty'''<br />
smartly trim
'''toggle'''<br />
a type of switch
'''anapestic'''<br />
An anapest is a three-syllable word where the emphasis is one last syllable. "Anapest" is an anapest.
===Endnote 145 · Found Drama===
