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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
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Subject: Re: doublespeak awards
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Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 11:38:05 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 30 11:38:05 1984
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> 
> There's an article on page A 23 of today's Seattle Times titled
> "Doublespeak: O 'arbitrary deprivation of life,' where is thy sting?"  The
> article reports on the 1984 Doublespeak Award, from the National Council
> of Teachers of English.
...
> 
> 	* The Pentagon, which renamed peace "permanent pre-hostility," ...
>

Shades of Orwell's "Ministry of Peace"!
-- 
Saumya Debray, 	SUNY at Stony Brook

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