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Revision as of 22:21, April 11, 2009
, 22:21, April 11, 2009Twilight Zone is a very much a conservative term - coined by U.S. Air Force pilots: see http://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/Land/day_night.html
|1980s
|1980s
|popularized by President Ronald Reagan as the approach to use towards communist [[deceit]]
|popularized by President Ronald Reagan as the approach to use towards communist [[deceit]]
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|[[twilight zone]]
|1949
|the realm of imagination that seems impossible but is difficult to disprove, and which challenges ordinary views of reality; also the terminator between night and day on a planetary body
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|vandalism
|vandalism
|1974<ref>This first use was in the British magazine ''The Economist''.</ref>
|1974<ref>This first use was in the British magazine ''The Economist''.</ref>
|a combination of a Greek root ("tele", which means "far off") and a Latin root ("commutare", which means "to exchange")
|a combination of a Greek root ("tele", which means "far off") and a Latin root ("commutare", which means "to exchange")
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