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March 1995 Issue
March 1995 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Darling
    Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Dwight Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery
    Nancy Caldwell Sorel
  • Infection
    Francis Davis
  • The Perilous Iditarod
    Mark Derr
  • The Price of Orthodoxy: A Runaway Best Seller, the New Catholic Catechism Is a Summa of Certainty
    Charles K. Morris
  • In the Place of Fallen Leaves
    Phoebe-Lou Adams

Word Improvisation: Boy Scouts and Boondoggles

I n ccs tiga lions of slung by the editor of the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang

By J. E. Lighter
March 1995 Issue
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