I remember way back in the 60s or maybe early 70s. William F. Buckley mentioned how vulnerable we are to terror attacks on our power grids, reservoirs etc. He used a term for it which I have forgotten.
It is amazing how little we actually have suffered.
” He used a term for it which I have forgotten.”
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He probably used a term that I would have had to look up in the dictionary.:-)
He was fantastic.
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I LOVED listening to him. He ALWAYS used a word I had never heard of before.
When getting interviewed he was asked if he had EVER taken public transportation. He said no. He was asked, "Never?" He answered, "Well, everyone has a lacuna in his life."
Lol. Whaaaaaa? I did look it up and it's a great word, 100% appropriate for his meaning.
Lacuna (pl. lacunas or lacunae) may refer to:
Lacuna (manuscripts), a missing section of text
Lacuna (music), an extended silence in a piece of music
Lacuna (linguistics), a lexical gap in a language
Lacuna (law), the lack of a law or legal source addressing a situation
Lacuna (histology), a small space containing an osteocyte in bone or chondrocyte in cartilage
Lacuna (comics), a fictional Marvel Comics superhero The Lacuna, a 2009 novel by Barbara Kingsolver Lacuna, Inc., a fictional company in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lacuna, a character in Xanth by Piers Anthony
Lacunary function, in mathematics
Jessie Lacuna, a Filipino swimmer
Lacuna (film), a 2012 film
Whodda thunk?