

ORGANIZATION SERIES - PART 20 OF 20

[New name: How To Present Scientology To The World]


GLOSSARY [for tapes #10 - 18]

abandon: unrestrained freedom of actions or emotions.

abetted: encouraged or supported by aid or approval.

A-bomb: abbreviation for atomic bomb, a bomb that uses the
splitting of atoms to cause an explosion of tremendous force
accompanied by a blinding light.

ACC: Advanced Clinical Course. A theory and research course which
gave a much further insight into the phenomena of the mind and
the rationale of research and investigation. -Professional
Auditor's Bulletin 71.

Achilles: in Greek legend, a hero and one of the foremost of the
Greek warriors who fought in the Trojan War.

adjudicated: judged or decided.

adroit: skillful in a physical or mental way; clever; expert.

advent: coming or arrival.

AEC: abbreviation for Atomic Energy Commission, a former Federal
agency (1946-75) created to regulate the U.S. atomic-energy
program.

agent saboteur: agent provocateur: a person hired to join labor
unions, political parties, etc., in order to incite their members
to actions that will make them or their organizations liable to
penalties.

aggregate: gathered into, or considered as, a whole; total.

aide-de-camp: an officer in the army, navy, etc., serving as an
assistant and confidential secretary to a superior.

air marshals: officers of the British Royal Air Force, equivalent
in rank to a lieutenant general (three-star general; a full
general has four stars) in the army.

alarmist: a person who habitually spreads alarming rumors,
exaggerated reports of danger, etc.

alchemy: an early form of chemistry, often mixed with magic,
studied in the Middle Ages (500-1450 A.D.). The chief aims of
alchemy were to change iron or lead into gold and to find a drink
that would keep people young forever.

Aldershot: the site of a permanent (since 1855) military camp in
Hampshire, southern England. In 1904-14 the center for English
military training.

Alexander's: belonging to Alexander the Great: (356 -- 323 B.C.)
king of Macedonia (ancient kingdom in southeastern Europe located
in what is now Greece, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria). He was tutored
by Aristotle. Alexander was one of the greatest generals of all
time and one of the most powerful personalities of ancient times.

all: one's whole interest, energy or property.

alter-is: to alter or change the reality of something. Isness
means the way it is. When someone sees it differently he is doing
an alter-is; in other words, is altering the way it is. -LRH
Definition Notes.

alternating current: an electric current that reverses its
direction periodically.

amnesia: partial or total loss of memory.

amoeba: an extremely small, one-celled animal found in soil and
water.

anachronism: anything that is or seems to be out of its proper
time in history.

analogy: an explaining of something by comparing it point by
point with something similar.

AP: Associated Press, a press association, maintained by American
newspaper owners, which gathers news throughout the world for
exchange and distribution among members and for sale to radio,
television, news magazines and other news media.

Appalachians: Appalachian Mountains, a mountain system of eastern
North America extending from Canada to central Alabama.

appropriated: set aside for a specific use.

arbitrary: based on one's preference, notion, whim, etc.

Archangel Mike: Archangel Michael: archangel, in the Christian
story, is the title usually given to Michael, the chief opponent
of Satan. In Muslim belief, Archangel Michael is the champion,
who fights the battle of faith.

arduous: requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult.

ardure: a coined word from arduous; difficulty, laboriousness,
strenuousness.

Aristotle: (384-322 B.C.) Greek philosopher. Taught in Athens as
head of his own school (335-322 B.C.). His treatises (books or
long articles each dealing with some subject in a detailed way)
may be classified as works in logic, metaphysics, natural
science, ethics and politics, rhetoric and poetics.

arsenic: a silvery-white, brittle, poisonous chemical element,
compounds of which are used in making insecticides, glass,
medicines, etc.

Articles of Confederation: the first Constitution of the thirteen
original states (of the United States); it was adopted in 1781
and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.

as-is: to view anything as it is, without any distortions or
lies, at which moment it will vanish and cease to exist.
-Scientology Abridged Dictionary.

askance: suspicion, mistrust or disapproval.

Athens: the capital of Greece, in the southeastern part. In
ancient times this city was the center of Greek culture.

at large: in general; taken altogether.

atom bomb: See A-bomb in this glossary.

atomic age: the period of history initiated by the first use of
the atomic bomb (1945) and characterized by atomic energy as a
military, political and industrial factor. See also A-bomb in
this glossary.

atomic fission: the splitting of the central parts of atoms with
the release of great amounts of energy. This is the principle of
the atomic bomb.

atomic fusion: the combining of the centers of two atoms to
produce a center of greater mass. Atomic fusion releases vast
amounts of energy and is used to produce the reaction in the
hydrogen bomb.

atomic physics: that branch of physics which deals with atoms,
their structure and the behavior of atomic particles.

Auditor's Code: a collection of rules (do's and don'ts) that an
auditor follows while auditing someone, which ensures that the
preclear will get the greatest possible gain out of the
processing that he is having. -Scientology Abridged Dictionary.

Aussie: (slang) Australian.

automaticity: something set up automatically to run without
further attention from yourself There are three kinds of
automaticities: those which create things, those which make
things persist and those which destroy things. -Lectures of 20
November 1953; 9 December 1953.

averse: reluctant; opposed (to).

avidly: eagerly and enthusiastically.

B-52s: U.S. long-range heavy bombers, first flown in 1952. With a
full load of fuel they can fly 10,000 miles without refueling.

Babylon: ancient city on the lower Euphrates River (river in
southwestern Asia, 2,235 miles long). Probably in existence since
4000 B.C., it became the capital of Babylonia (the ancient empire
in what is now southern Iraq) in 2050 B.C. and chief commercial
city in its area.

back to battery: a slang artillery term used to indicate somebody
who is now fixed up; he will be all right for something, or what
he had had will now be over. A gun after it is fired is said to
go "out of battery," which is to say it recoils. Then after it's
fired it's supposed to go "back to battery" which is sitting the
way one sees them in photographs. -Lecture of 7 April 1972.

backtrack: see whole track in this glossary.

bacrobics: a made-up term for bacteria.

ball, on the: lively and attentive; well able to do one's job,
organize, etc.

"Ball Street Journal": a made-up name for a newspaper.

band: class, rank or order; range.

baseball Cards: the St. Louis Cardinals, an American professional
baseball team.

Bastille: state prison in Paris, stormed and destroyed in 1789 in
the French Revolution (1789-99). See also French Revolution in
this glossary.

bayonet: a detachable, daggerlike blade put on the muzzle end of
a rifle for hand-to-hand fighting.

beat: a habitual path or round of duty.

beck and call, at our: obedient to our wishes; at our service.

Bierce, Ambrose: American journalist and short-story writer
(1842-1914), reputed as a witty and caustic writer. His later
works became cynical, often bitter and gruesome. He disappeared
in Mexico in 1913, fate unknown.

Bikini: small island in the southern Pacific Ocean. It was the
sight of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission nuclear-weapons tests. See
also AEC in this glossary.

billy: a policeman's club.

biochemist: an expert in biochemistry (the study of chemical
substances occurring in living organisms).

black case: a case which can't run engrams because he can't see
them. HCOB 14 January 1960.

blackguard: (chiefly British and Canadian) the lowest servant in
a large household, in charge of pots and pans. Also, a scoundrel
or villain.

blew up in their faces: (said of a situation or plan) was
violently destroyed, or completely changed by some event.

Borgia, Cesare: (1476-1507) Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and
military leader, notorious for his treachery and political
murders.

Brahmans: members of the priestly caste, the highest caste in
India.

brainwashing: subjection of a person to systematic indoctrination
or mental pressure with a view to getting him to change his views
or to confess to a crime. -HCO PL 20 December 1969 VIII.

brass: (slang) military officers of high rank.

bric-a-brac: odds and ends of any sort.

brigadiers: commanders of brigades (large units of soldiers);
officers ranking above a colonel and below a major general.

British Commonwealth: (of Nations) a confederation of independent
nations, with their dependencies, united under the British crown:
it includes the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India,
Jamaica, Kenya, New Zealand, and many others.

bull: in ancient Greek mythology, there was a monster called the
Minotaur, composed of the body of a man and the head of a bull.
See also Cretan; Minoan in this glossary.

burley-burley: (U.S. informal) a burlesque show (a humorous and
provocative stage show featuring slapstick humor, comic sketches
or skits, bawdy songs, striptease acts, suggestive dances and
scantily clad female chorus).

button, on the: exactly as desired, expected, specified, etc.

by and large: in general; on the whole.

boards, go by the: be destroyed, neglected or forgotten.

canaille: rabble, scum, riff-raff.

capital of, make: to take advantage of, use to one's advantage.

capitalist: an advocate of capitalism: the economics of living by
nonproduction. It by exact definition is the economics of living
off the interest from loans. -HCO PL 6 March 1966.

capitalista: Spanish for capitalist.

Castoria: a popular U.S. brand name for castor oil, a colorless
or yellowish oil from castor beans, used as a laxative and
lubricant.

cataclysm: a sudden and violent change, as a great flood,
earthquake, war or revolution.

catch phrases: phrases that catch or are meant to catch the
popular attention.

catfish to fry, had other: had something to do that was more
important or profitable.

caves in: falls in; collapses.

centigrade: pertaining to or noting a temperature scale in which
0 degrees represents the ice point (where water turns to ice) and
100 degrees the steam point (where water turns to steam).

Chaldea: province of ancient Babylonia, an empire which existed
in southwestern Asia in what is now southern Iraq.

chalk line, walking down the: acting exactly as you are supposed
to; behaving properly.

Chamberlain: Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940), British statesman;
prime minister from 1937 to 1940.

Chaney, Lon: (1883-1930) American motion-picture actor known
especially for his ability, by means of make-up and otherwise, to
distort his face and body.

chaps: fellows; men or boys.

Charleston: city in southeastern South Carolina, founded in 1680.

chartreuse: pale, yellowish green.

checks: things that hold back or control.

chitter: talk lightly and rapidly, especially of trivial matters.

chow: (slang) food. Christian Science Monitor international daily
newspaper of the Christian Science Church, founded by Mary Baker
Eddy in 1908.

Christoph: Henri Christoph (1767-1820), king of Haiti (1811-
20). He enforced heavy demands for work on his subjects with
great cruelty, leading to a revolt in 1820. He reportedly shot
himself with a silver bullet in 1820.

circumscribed: marked off, defined, drawn.

clich: an expression that has become worn out by constant use.

clink: a jail, prison, prison cell or guardhouse.

closing terminals: becoming identified, one with the other.
-Professional Auditor's Bulletin 63.

cognited: had a cognition, or a new realization of life.
Cognitions result in higher degrees of awareness and consequently
greater abilities to succeed with one's endeavors in life.
-Dianetics Today.

cognizance: official authority over something.

cogwheels: wheels with their rims notched into teeth which mesh
with those of other wheels or of a rack to transmit or receive
motion.

coif: a style of arranging the hair.

colitis: inflammation of the large intestine.

colloquially: in a way characteristic of or appropriate to
ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or
writing; informally.

Columbia: a large private university in New York City, founded in
1754.

Commies: (slang) Communists, supporters of communism, a system of
social organization in which all economic and social activity is
controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and
self-perpetuating political party.

commissar: head of a government department in the Soviet Union.

commission: an official certificate conferring rank.

comm lag: communication lag, the length of time intervening
between the posing of a question or the origination of a
statement, and the exact moment that question or original
statement is answered. -Scientology Abridged Dictionary;
Dianetics 55!.

conduit: to transmit or convey.

conduits: any natural channels, canals or passages in the animal
body.

Confrontingness: a process which separates out valences in a
preclear. The auditor has the preclear get a mock-up (a mental
image picture created by a thetan) of a present time acquaintance
and then have that mock-up confront the wall. See also valences
in this glossary. -LRH Letter 10 October 1956.

congress: an assembly of Scientologists held in any of various
cities around the world for a presentation of Dianetics and/or
Scientology materials. Many congresses were addressed directly by
Ron. Others were based upon taped LRH lectures or films on a
particular subject. A congress also sometimes included seminars
and co-audits for attendees. -HCO Exec Letter 12 October 1964;
HCO PL 4 September 1964; HCOB 27 September 1960.

Congressional Record: the official record of the daily
proceedings of the Congress (the group of elected officials in
the United States that makes the laws).

con men: (slang) confidence men, swindlers who try to gain the
confidence of their victim in order to defraud them.

Constitutional Convention: the meeting between May and September
1787 in Philadelphia at which the Constitution of the United
States was drawn up.

cook up: to plan or scheme; to concoct an idea or plan of action;
to invent.

correlative: tending to place in or bring into proper relation
with one another; showing the connection or relation between.

count: the indication of the total number of reactions registered
by a Geiger counter in a given period of time. See also Geiger
counter in this glossary.

countenance: approve or support.

crack up: lose emotional control, willpower or sanity.

crammed down the throats: forced upon; tried forcefully to make
people accept (one's ideas, opinions, etc.).

Cretan: of or having to do with Crete or its people. (Crete is a
Greek island in the Mediterranean southeast of Greece. It
developed an advanced civilization between 3000 and 2100 B.C.

crew cut: a style of close haircut, usually a man's or boy's. It
has a flat silhouette with a hair length of about an inch or less
on the top, closely cropped on the sides. From college crewmen
(members of rowing teams for long, narrow, thin-hulled racing
boats) who have favored such haircuts for many years.

cross paralytics: of or related to crossed paralysis (a paralysis
affecting one side of the face and the opposite side of the trunk
and limbs).

crux: the most important or deciding point.

curriculum: course or plan of study in a school.

cursory: done in a hurry and without attention to details;
superficial.

cuts out: discontinues; stops.

daffy: silly, weak-minded; crazy.

Dark Ages: the period from 476 A.D. to about the end of the tenth
century, so called from the idea that this period in Europe was
characterized by intellectual stagnation, widespread ignorance
and poverty, cultural decline, etc.

Dartmoor: a prison located on a bleak plateau in southwestern
England. It was opened in 1809 as a depot for French prisoners of
war, and used for American prisoners of war during the War of
1812. In 1850 it was reopened as the Dartmoor Convict Prison.

dashed (it) off: did, made or wrote, etc., quickly.

daylights: (slang) life; sense; wits.

dead in his head: (Scientology slang) a case totally associating
all thought with mass. Thus, he reads peculiarly on the meter. As
he is audited he frees his thinkingness so that he can think
without mass connotations. -HCOB 17 March 1960.

Death Valley: dry hot desert basin in eastern California and
southern Nevada, containing the lowest point in the Western
Hemisphere.

decimated: destroyed much of; killed a large part of.

deflation: reduction of the amount of available money in
circulation so that prices go down.

degrade: to lower or corrupt in quality, moral character, value,
etc.

DEI cycle: Desire-Enforce-Inhibit Scale. Each lower step is an
explanation to justify having failed with the upper level. -
Professional Auditor's Bulletin 50; HCOB 13 October 1959.

Delaware: a river from southern New York to the Delaware Bay, 280
miles long. George Washington crossed this river (December 25-26,
1776) prior to the battle of Trenton where he defeated a force of
German mercenaries used by England in the American Revolution.

demised: terminated in existence or operation.

democracy: government in which the people hold the ruling power
either directly or through elected representatives; rule by the
ruled.

dens: places where people gather for some illegal activity.

depression: the Great Depression of the 1920s which began in the
U.S. and spread abroad; a period of economic crisis in commerce,
finance and industry, characterized by falling prices, restricted
credit, reduced production, numerous bankruptcies and high
unemployment.

deserts: rewards or punishments that are deserved.

devil, going to the: going to the dogs. See dogs, going to the in
this glossary.

diabolical: like a devil, very cruel or wicked.

Dianazene: a formula combining nicotinic acid, vitamins and other
minerals which runs out radiation. See also nicotinic acid in
this glossary. -All About Radiation.

didactic: inclined to teach or lecture others too much.

die is cast, the: the decision is made and cannot be changed.

diplomatic: tactful and adroit in dealing with people.

dispersing: breaking up and scattering in all directions;
spreading out.

distraught: extremely troubled; mentally confused; distracted.

Distribution Center: center whose purpose was to service people
with Dianetics and Scientology books, tapes, brochures,
memberships and information. -Professional Auditor's Bulletin 88,
Ability Magazine 32; Ability Magazine 36.

District, the: District of Columbia, Washington, DC, the capital
city of the United States. The site was chosen in 1790 by
President George Washington, occupied by the Federal government
in 1800.

diversely: differently; dissimilarly.

dogs: fellows in general as specified.

dogs, going to the: no longer being of a good quality, character,
etc.; being near ruin.

doled out: given out sparingly or in small amounts.

done (everyone) in: injured gravely or exhausted; wore out;
ruined.

dope, all the: (slang) all of the information, data or news.

dopes: persons who use narcotics.

double take: a quick second look or glance; a sudden recognition
that what was glanced over or thought of as common is actually
remarkable.

dough: (slang) money.

dragoon pistol: the sidearm carried by a cavalry soldier.

dramatizing: repeating in action what has happened to one in
experience. It's replaying now something that happened then. It's
just being replayed out of its time period. -Lecture of 28 July
1966.

Dulles's: belonging to John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), American
lawyer, U.S. secretary of state 1953-59. Dulles was credited with
authoring foreign policy by which the U.S. was to prepare for
massive retaliation against "communist aggression" rather than
fight small, costly wars.

dumbfounded: made speechless by shocking, amazed; astonished.

easy mark: a person who is easily convinced, victimized or
cheated.

echelon: level of command, authority or rank.

8-C: the name of a process. Also used to mean good control. -HCOB
23 August 1965.

Einstein: Albert Einstein (1879-1955), American physicist born in
Germany and winner of the Nobel prize for physics in 1921.

Eisenhower: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), American general
(1941-48), president Columbia University (1948-53), and president
of the United States (1953-61).

electrode: an electric conductor through which an electric
current enters or leaves something.

Elizabeth's, Saint: Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, a government
psychiatric hospital in Washington, DC.

emulate: try to equal or surpass; especially to imitate or copy
with a view to equaling or surpassing.

english: a twisting, spinning rotation made by a tennis ball,
billiard ball, or the like, as it moves forward; the untrue
bounce or carom caused by this motion.

entrepreneur: a person who organizes and manages a business
undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of the profit.

enzymes: substances produced in plant and animal cells that cause
a chemical change in other substances but are not changed
themselves.

epaulets: the shoulder ornaments for certain uniforms, especially
military uniforms.

esoteric: intended only for people with special knowledge or
interest.

ethic: the body of moral principles or values governing or
distinctive of a particular group.

exteriorization processes: Scientology auditing processes by
which the thetan becomes exterior to the body. He can view the
body or control the body from a distance. -Lectures of 28
February 1957, 13 December 1966.

facade: a front part of anything, especially when thought of as
concealing something, as an error, weakness or scheme.

factions: groups of people inside a political party, club,
government, etc., working in a common cause against other such
groups or against the main body.

fallout: the descent to earth of radioactive particles, as after
a nuclear explosion.

FBI: the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an agency of the U.S.
Department of Justice, responsible for investigating violations
of Federal law.

feather his nest: to grow wealthy by making use of property or
funds left in one's trust.

Federales: Judicial Police of the Federal District and
Territories, one of two Federal police forces in Mexico.

feigning: pretending.

flat: no longer producing a reaction. -HCOB 2 June 1971.

flighty: given to sudden whims; not taking things seriously;
frivolous or irresponsible.

flinders: splinters or fragments.

flintlock: a gunlock (firing mechanism in some old guns) in which
a flint in the hammer strikes a metal plate to produce a spark
that ignites the powder.

FM waves: a class of radio wave. FM means frequency modulation, a
method of radio broadcasting in which the number of vibrations
per second of the radio wave changes according to the sound being
broadcast.

fog: confused or puzzled condition.

foible: a harmless peculiarity in a person's character.

folded up: collapsed; failed.

foment: the action or process of becoming excited or heated.

football Cards: an American professional football team named the
St. Louis Cardinals.

for the birds: (slang) ridiculous, foolish, worthless, useless,
etc.

Fort Knox: U.S. military reservation, established in 1917 as a
training camp. Location of the U.S. Federal gold depository
(built 1936) which holds the bulk of the nation's gold bullion in
steel-and-concrete vaults.

.45: firearm which loads automatically and fires each time the
trigger is pulled, with nothing further required of the shooter.
The .45 refers to the caliber, or diameter or the bullet, which
is .45 inch.

four-posters: beds with four posts for supporting canopies or
curtains.

foxholes: holes dug in the ground as a temporary protection for
one or two soldiers against enemy fire or tanks.

frame of reference: the set of ideas, facts or circumstances
within which something exists.

francs: aluminum or nickel coins and monetary units of France.

Frankie: Franklin Delanor Roosevelt (1882-1945), thirty-second
president of the United States (1933-45). He was the first
president to broadcast over the radio; his "fireside chats"
explained issues and policies to the people.

French Revolution: the revolution that began in France in 1789
with the overthrow of the French royal family and ended in 1799
with Napoleon's overthrow of the governing body established in
1795.

from scratch: from nothing; without resources.

froths: foams.

Gadsden's Purchase: the purchase of 19 million acres of land in
Arizona and New Mexico from Mexico for $10 million. It was sold
by the leader of Mexico to raise funds for an expanded army.

Galilee, Sea oh a lake in northeastern Israel on the Syrian
border. Traditionally the area in which Jesus conducted his
ministry.

gallows: an upright frame with a crossbeam and rope, for hanging
condemned persons.

gambit: any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage.

games conditions: aberrated activities which are reactive and
being performed way outside one's power of choice and without
one's consent of will. They are characterized by fixated
attention, an inability to escape coupled with an inability to
attack, to the exclusion of other games. -Lecture of 20 July
1961.

gamma: a high-frequency, penetrating type of radiation emitted
from radioactive atoms.

Garand: type of rifle produced in 1938 for the U.S. infantry,
designed at Springfield Armory. See also Springfield Armory in
this glossary.

garish: crudely or tastelessly colorful.

gastric: of or pertaining to the stomach.

Geiger counters: devices which are used to measure radioactivity.

gemzynes: a made-up name for substances that might be found in a
human body.

gen: (British slang) general information.

genetic line: the protoplasm (essential living matter of cells)
line. It consists of the total of incidents which have occurred
during the evolution of the body itself. -Lecture of 10 March
1952; Scientology: A History of Man.

George III: (1738-1820) king of Great Britain and Ireland (1760-
1820) whose policy of coercion led to the American Revolution.

gimping: limping.

glibbest: speaking in the smoothest, most fluent, most easy
manner.

gourd: a hardshelled fruit whose dried shell can be used for
bowls and other utensils.

gradient scale: a gradual approach to something, taken step by
step, level by level, each step or level being, of itself, easily
surmountable-so that, finally, quite complicated and difficult
activities or high states of being can be achieved with relative
ease. This principle is applied to both Dianetics and Scientology
processing and training. -Scientology Abridged Dictionary.

grape: grapeshot, a cluster of small iron balls formerly fired
from a cannon as a dispersing charge.

grifts: confidence tricksters, minor criminals.

ground wave: having to do with a radio wave that travels along or
near the ground.

Guadalcanal: an island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. During
World War II, in bitter fighting, U.S. forces seized the island
and its airstrip from Japanese troops.

guillotine: a machine for beheading persons by means of a heavy
blade that slides down between two grooved posts.

gyps: people who use shrewd, unethical business methods;
swindlers; cheaters.

Haiti: a country occupying the western portion of the Island of
Hispaniola, West Indies.

Hamilton, Alexander: (1755-1804) American lawyer and statesman.
First U.S. secretary of the treasury; planned and initiated
policies establishing a national financial system.

Hamlet: a tragedy play written by English writer William
Shakespeare.

hardboiled: without sentiment; tough; mean; unconcerned about the
feelings or opinions of others.

harmonies: in mathematical terms, harmonics are the even
doubling, quadrupling, etc., of numbers as they go up or the
halving or quartering, etc., of numbers as they go down. This
last is not generally realized, that harmonies also go down. Here
is an example of a harmonic: a pitch vibrating at, let us say,
200 vibrations a second will have a harmonic at 400, 800, 1600
and 3200, etc., vibrations per second. It can also have a
harmonic of 100, 50, 25, 12 1/2, 61/4, etc. -LRH Notes.

Harvard: of or characteristic of Harvard University, a private
university founded in 1636, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
It is primarily a university for men, but women are admitted.

HASI: Hubbard Association of Scientologists International. Around
the time of the lecture HASIs were individual service
organizations. -HCO PL 28 October 1960.

hat: a slang term for the title and work of a post in an
organization. It comes from the fact that jobs are often
distinguished by a type of hat worn on the head by a person, such
as fireman, policeman, railroad conductor, sailor, etc. Hence the
term hat. -HCO PL 1 July 1965; HCO PL 13 September 1970.

hatter, mad as a: quite mad. (Earlier, felt hats were made by
treating furs, usually rabbit or beaver, with mercury. Prolonged
exposure to the fumes of mercury damages the nervous system. Old
hatters therefore developed a twitch, they tended to become
incoherent, and they suffered a loss of coordination that made
them appear to be zany, a condition once known as the hatter's
shakes.)

havingness: the concept of being able to reach. By havingness is
meant owning, possessing, being capable of commanding, taking
charge of objects, energies and spaces. -Lectures of 29 March
1962; 14 August 1963; 13 December 1966, Scientology: The
Fundamentals of Thought.

hawk, watches like a: watches (someone) very closely, especially
in order to catch him doing something.

H-bombs: abbreviation for hydrogen bombs, very destructive types
of bombs whose enormous force comes from the energy given off
when atoms of a heavy form of hydrogen are fused with each other
under the extraordinarily intense heat and pressure created by
the explosion of atomic-fission units within the bombs. See also
atomic fission; atomic fusion in this glossary.

HCA: abbreviation for Hubbard Certified Auditor. An auditor, to
achieve this title, is trained on an exactly laid out course of
theory and practical learning, and is then qualified to deliver
certain types of processing to preclears. Now Class Il on the
Classification, Gradation and Awareness Chart. -HCO PL 5 May
1964; HCO PL 21 May 1962; Classification, Gradation and Awareness
Chart.

head or tails out of, make: make any sense out of, understand.

head, over your: beyond your comprehension, ability or resources.

heels, on the: close behind; immediately following.

Helena: capital city of Montana near which L. Ron Hubbard lived
as a boy.

helm: the handle or wheel by which a ship is steered.

hemorrhaging: bleeding extensively.

Hitler: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), dictator of Germany from 1933
to 1945. In rising to power in Germany, he fortified his position
through murder of real or imagined opponents and maintained
police-state control over the population. He led Germany into
World War Il, resulting in its nearly total destruction.

hobnailed livers: livers as they appear in one form of cirrhosis
(a disease suffered especially by alcoholics) in which they are
shrunken and hard and covered with small projections. Hobnails
are short nails with large, thick heads for protecting the soles
of heavy boots and shoes.

hold his own: succeed in holding his position.

hooker: a concealed problem, flaw or drawback; a catch.

hopheads: drug addicts.

horn of the giants: (Norse mythology) a horn from which Thor
drank as part of a drinking contest. To his shame, he was unable
to empty the horn in three draughts (swallows), only lowering its
level to just below the rim. As later came to be revealed,
however, the horn had its tip in the ocean, so that his great
gulps had actually lowered the level of the sea.

horse pistols: pistols that used to be carried by horsemen.

hot: radioactive.

hue and cry: general outcry of alarm or demand.

huff: a fit of annoyance.

Hungary: a country in central Europe. It came under Communist
control in the late 1940s, but revolted against the Soviet Union
in 1956. The uprising was suppressed by Soviet troops.

hypercritical: too critical; too severe in judgment; hard to
please.

idyllic: peaceful and happy.

Ike: nickname of Dwight D. Eisenhower. See Eisenhower in this
glossary.

impetus: a driving force.

incarceration: imprisonment; confinement.

incipient: in early stages; beginning.

indict: charge with an offense or crime; accuse.

indigent: poor; needy.

indigo: a deep violet-blue dye.

individuate: withdraw into only self and out of groups. -Lecture
of 20 February 1962.

indulged: practiced according to one's own desires.

industrialists: persons who own or are engaged in managing
industrial businesses.

inertia: a tendency to remain in a fixed condition without
change; disinclination to move or act.

infidelity: cheating or being sexually unfaithful to one's
spouse.

inflation: an increase in the amount of money in circulation,
resulting in a relatively sharp and sudden fall in its value and
a rise in prices.

in lieu: instead of, in place of.

inner sanctum: a private place or retreat that cannot be
violated.

innocuous: not controversial, offensive or stimulating; dull and
uninspiring.

inured: made accustomed to something undesirable by prolonged
subjection to it.

ionosphere: the outer part of the earth's atmosphere. It begins
at an altitude of about twenty-five miles. It is made up of
layers of gases that have been ionized (changed into groups of
atoms that have electrical charge).

iota: a very small quantity.

jilted: deceived, misled, tricked, etc.

joint: any house, building, etc.

Joliet: a city in northeastern Illinois, thirty-eight miles
southwest of Chicago. Site of an old penitentiary and Stateville
prison.

keeps me eye open: to be on the lookout; be watchful; dialect
form of keep my eyes open.

Key West: the southernmost city of the continental United States,
a seaport of Florida.

kick, get a very big kick out of: to derive pleasurable
excitement from something.

kinder: German word for children.

King Hamaradahugabunga: a made up name for an ancient king;
probably a play on the name of King Hammurabi, who ruled Babylon
around 1900 B.C.

King William: William IV (1765-1837), king of England from 1830
to 1837. He was the last British sovereign to attempt to force a
ministry upon an unwilling majority in Parliament.

Kremlin: the government of the Soviet Union.

La Brea Avenue: an avenue in Los Angeles, California near which
is located the famous La Brea tar pits. These pits of oozing
crude oil contain fossils and remains of entrapped prehistoric
plants and animals.

latterly: lately; of late; recently.

law of averages: the idea that you can't win all the time or lose
all the time.

lethargy: a state of being drowsy, dull and unenergetic, or
indifferent, lazy and sluggish.

let him have it between the eyes: made a strong impression on
(him); surprised (him) greatly.

levee: an embankment built alongside a river to prevent high
water from flooding the bordering land.

liberal: tolerant of ideas differing from one's own; broad-
minded.

line, on the: immediately; readily.

line, out of: not in accord with the prevailing price, quality,
standards or code.

lip service, paying: expressing agreement (to an idea, statement,
etc.) without sincerely meaning it or without taking action in
support of it.

longbow, drawing a: exaggerating.

long haul: a long length of time during which work continues or
something is done.

longshoremen: men who are employed in loading and unloading
ships.

lowdown: (slang) the true facts; inside information.

lynchings: occurrences of hanging or otherwise killing (a person)
by mob action and without legal authority.

machetes: large, heavy-bladed knives used for cutting down sugar
cane, dense underbrush, etc., especially in Central and South
America.

Mackinaw: a blanket or coat, made of a thick woolen material,
often woven in bars of bright colors, much used by Indians,
lumbermen, etc., in the American Northwest.

mad-dogging: acting like a rabid person; behaving irrationally
extreme in opinion or practice.

maelstrom: any large and violent whirlpool.

main, in the: mostly; chiefly.

malady: a disease; illness; sickness: often used figuratively.

malaise: a vague feeling of physical discomfort or uneasiness, as
early in an illness.

malignant: very dangerous; causing or likely to cause death.

maligning: speaking evilly of, slandering.

mandates: authoritative orders or commands, especially written
ones.

mantle: a loose, sleeveless cloak or cape: sometimes used
figuratively, in allusion to royal robes of state, as a symbol or
authority or responsibility.

mark: a unit of money of Germany.

marshal: place in proper or desired order, as for battle.

Marx, Karl: (1818-83) German revolutionary leader, social
philosopher and political economist, in London after 1850.
Founder of modern socialism.

masochistic: characteristic of getting pleasure from physical or
psychological pain, inflicted by others or by oneself.

matchlock: an old type of gunlock (firing mechanism in some old
guns) in which the charge of powder is ignited by a slow-burning
match (wick or cord).

Mauser bullet: bullet from a powerful repeating rifle or pistol:
from German inventor Paul Mauser (1838-1914).

mean: something midway between two extremes.

mechanism: the agency or means by which an effect is produced or
a purpose is accomplished.

mega-megavolt: a million million volts (units for measuring the
force of an electric current).

Melbourne: a seaport in southeastern Australia where the 1956
Olympics were held.

Messiah: in Jewish belief, the person that God will send to save
the Jewish people.

Messianic: of the Messiah. See Messiah in this glossary.

MEST: word coined from the initial letters of Matter, Energy,
Space and Time, which are the component parts (elements) of the
physical universe. How to Live Though an Executive; Dianetics
Today.

micrometer caliper: a caliper (an instrument for measuring
thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a
ruler) for making precise measurements.

Middle Ages: the period of European history between ancient and
modern times, 476 A.D. to circa 1450 A.D.

Middle East: a region that includes southwestern Asia and part of
northeastern Africa. In the twentieth century the area has been
the scene of political turmoil and warfare.

midshipmen: students at the U.S. Naval Academy.

militia: a group of citizens who are not regular soldiers, but
who get some military training for service in an emergency.

millrace: a channel in which water flows rapidly from a river or
body of water to the mill, where the force of the current
provides the energy to drive the mill. A narrows provides a
similar channel in which water flows with great speed and force
through the channel during the changing of a tide.

Minoan: referring to an ancient culture (3000-1200 B.C.) centered
around the Mediterranean island of Crete.

MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, privately controlled
technological and scientific institution located in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, founded in 1865.

modus operandi: mode of operation; way of doing or making;
procedure.

monarchy: government by a monarch (a ruler as a king, queen or
emperor).

monomaniac: characterized by an excessive interest in or
enthusiasm for some one thing.

Monroe, James: (1758-1831) fifth president of the United States
(1817-25).

Montaigne, Sieur de: Michel Eyquem seigneur de Montaigne, French
essayist (1533-92) whose works reflected his concern with pain
and death.

mortar: a mixture of cement or lime and water, used between
bricks or stones in building, or as plaster.

Moscow: a city located in the central part of the Soviet Union in
Europe, and the Russian capital.

mug: (slang) a man; a fellow; a guy.

muzzle: the front end of the barrel of a rifle, pistol, etc.

Mycenaean: civilization which existed in Greece, Crete, Asia
Minor, etc., from approximately 1500-1100 B.C. Brought advanced
techniques in art and architecture to Greece. See also Cretan in
this glossary.

nailed down: settled definitely; made sure.

Napoleon: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French military leader.
He rose to power in France by military force, declared himself
emperor and conducted campaigns of conquest across Europe until
his final defeat by armies allied against him in 1815.

nebulousness: unclearness; vagueness.

necromancy: magic, especially that practiced by a witch or
sorcerer; witchcraft.

new blood: new people, regarded as a potential source of fresh
ideas, renewed vigor, etc.

New England: region of the northeastern United States, comprised
of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
Connecticut.

nicotinic acid: niacin, a white, odorless substance found in
protein foods or prepared artificially: it is one of the vitamins
in the vitamin B complex. See also B complex in this glossary.

niter: a colorless or white salt used as an oxidizing agent in
gunpowder, explosives, fertilizers, in preserving meat and in
medicine.

nitrocellulose: an explosive made from cellulose (an organic
substance found in plants) and certain acids and alcohol.

no-game condition: a totality of barriers or a totality of
freedom. See also games conditions in this glossary.

noncommunist: not supportive of or opposed to communism. See also
Commies in this glossary.

non compos mentis: not of sound mind; mentally incapable of
handling one's own affairs.

nonsensical: foolish; silly; absurd.

nonvirulent: not very harmful nor poisonous; not deadly.

nuclear physics: the study of the components, structure, and
behavior of the nucleus of the atom. It is especially concerned
with the nature of matter and with nuclear energy.

nymphs: any of the nature goddesses of Greek or Roman myths, who
lived in trees, woods, rivers, etc.

Oberammergau: a village in Bavaria that performs the Passion Play
every ten years. It was first performed there in 1633 when the
villagers vowed to repeat it regularly in gratitude for escape
from a plague epidemic. See also Passion Play in this glossary.

obfuscating: confusing, bewildering or stupefying.

objective processes: objective refers to outward things, not the
thoughts or feelings of the individual. Objective processes deal
with the real and observable. They call for the preclear to spot
or find something exterior to himself in order to carry out the
auditing command. They locate the person in his environment,
establish direct communication with the auditor and bring a
person to present time, a very important factor in mental and
spiritual sanity and ability. -Basic Dictionary of Dianetics and
Scientology.

oblique: indirect, not going straight to the point.

obtain: be in force or in effect; prevail.

onto them: in the position of having discovered or obtained
knowledge of (an activity, etc., that was formerly unknown or
secret).

Oriental theater: See theater in this glossary.

Otis tests: IQ tests used in Scientology organizations; the Otis
QuickScoring Mental Ability test.

Over and Under: one of the processes contained in SLP 8 (Six
Levels of Processing), an auditing regimen which remedies a
person's willingness to confront and to be there and find out
where he is. In Over and Under a preclear is asked to choose an
engram in the middle of his life and then to control, uncontrol
and/or make more solid, facsimiles existing prior to (under) and
after (over) that engram. -HCO Training Bulletin 30 November
1966; Lecture of 14 November 1956.

Palomar, Mount: a mountain in Southern California, northeast of
San Diego: site of a famous observatory.

parity: equality, as in amount, status, character.

Park Avenue: a street in New York City traditionally associated
with luxurious residential and professional buildings,
fashionable living and high society.

Parliament: the law making body of Great Britain, similar in
function to the (U.S.) Congress. It consists of the House of
Commons (lower branch of the legislature of Great Britain), and
the House of Lords (upper branch of the legislature of Great
Britain, made up of nobility and high-ranking clergy).

parole: to free a prisoner before full sentence has been served,
on the condition that the prisoner obey certain rules of good
behavior.

part and parcel: an essential, necessary or integral part.

par value: the value of a stock, bond, note, etc., printed on it;
face value.

Passion Play: a dramatic presentation of the suffering,
crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, usually performed during
Holy Week (the week before Easter).

pauperized: very poor; inadequate.

Pavlov: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian physiologist;
noted for behavioral experiments on dogs.

Peanuts: one of the most successful U.S. comic strips of the mid-
twentieth century.

PE Course: a free introductory course for new Scientologists
which educates them in the actual, simple facts of existence, the
data of which is contained in Scientology: The Fundamentals of
Thought. The letters PE stand for "Personnel Efficiency."
-Lecture of 6 November 1956, HCOB 4 May 1959.

Peking: capital of the People's Republic of China, located in the
northeastern part of the country, the second largest city in
China. Peking is the political, financial, educational and
transportation center of the country.

pen: (slang) penitentiary; prison.

Pericles: (495-429 B.C.) Athenian statesman. In 461 B.C., he
secured the exile of Cimon (Athenian general and statesman who
induced Athens to aid in suppressing a revolt against Sparta, 464
B.C.), whom he replaced as leader of Athens. He arranged a truce
(445) with Sparta that brought fourteen years of peace, and
democratic reforms were introduced. Pericles became a great
patron of the arts and was responsible for the building of many
of the famous buildings in Athens.

perpetrates: commits, imposes.

Persia: old name for the Asian country of Iran, in which the
ancient Persian empire had its core. The empire began in the
seventh century B.C., and lasted until the time of Alexander the
Great, in the fourth century B.C. The Persian Empire stretched
from northern India to the Danube river in Europe.

non persona grata: usually "persona non grata," a Latin term
meaning an unacceptable or objectionable person; one who is not
welcome.

pewter: a container or utensil made of any of various alloys in
which tin is the chief constituent, originally one of tin and
lead.

pharmacopoeia: an authoritative book containing a list and
description of drugs and medicinal products together with the
standards established under law for their production,
dispensation, use, etc.

Philip: Philip II (1527-98), king of Spain (1556-98), king of
Naples and Sicily (1554-98), king of Portugal (1580-98);
centralized authority under his absolute monarchy and extended
Spanish colonization to the present southern United States and
the Philippines (which were named after him).

phrenology: a psychological theory or analytical method based on
the idea that certain mental faculties and character traits (a
special quality) are indicated by the configuration of a person's
skull.

physiognomy: facial features and expression, especially as
supposedly indicative of character.

pieces, went all to: fell into a bad condition.

pie in the sky: hope -- for example, of happiness or success --
that cannot possibly be fulfilled.

piling: a structure of long heavy timber or beam driven into the
ground sometimes underwater to support a bridge, dock, etc.

pique: a fit of displeasure.

pitch: an angle; a selfish motive; any unethical way of profiting
or benefiting.

pitch, get in there and: make an effort; work diligently.

plagiarized: took ideas or writings from someone else and
presented them as one's own.

Plato: Greek philosopher (437? -- 347 B.C.). In 407 B.C. he
became a pupil and friend of Socrates. He founded, around 387
B.C., near Athens, the most influential school of the ancient
world, the Academy, where he taught until his death. His most
famous pupil there was Aristotle. See also Aristotle; Socrates in
this glossary.

played up: highlighted or publicized.

Poe, E. A.: Edgar Allen Poe (1809-49), American writer, editor,
critic and short-story writer for magazines and newspapers. His
compelling short stories create a universe that is beautiful and
grotesque, real and fantastic. Poe is also considered the father
of the modern detective story.

pornography: writings, pictures, etc., intended primarily to
arouse sexual desire.

pose: way of behaving or speaking that is assumed for effect;
pretense.

post: position of duty, employment or trust to which a person is
assigned or appointed.

postulate: a self-determined thought which starts, stops or
changes past, present or future efforts. -Advanced Procedure and
Axioms.

Potomac River: a river flowing southeast from the Allegheny
Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland
and Virginia and through Washington, DC.

pound: also called pound sterling, monetary unit of the United
Kingdom.

Pravda: the official newspaper of the Communist Party in the
Soviet Union.

premier: the prime minister of any of certain countries.

prexy: (slang) the president, especially of a college, etc.

Prince, Morton: (1854-1929) American neurologist (a person who
works in the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous
system and its diseases) and psychologist, American authority on
abnormal psychology; founded and edited Journal of Abnormal
Psychology (1906-29).

profiles: concisely presented sketches of the life and character
of persons. At the time of this lecture this was the American
Personality Analysis (APA), a test which measured the ten traits
of personality which seemed to have the greatest bearing upon the
preclear and his reactions to life and the environment, as well
as to the other people in his life.

pronunciamentos: public declarations or pronouncements.

provocateur: a person who provokes trouble or incites to
violence, riot, etc.

Psalm: any of the sacred songs in praise of God constituting the
Book of Psalms in the Bible.

psychoanalyst: a person who is skilled in or works at
psychoanalysis, a system of mental therapy developed by Sigmund
Freud in Austria in 1894.

psychosomatically: in a psychosomatic way. Psycho refers to mind
and somatic refers to body; the term psychosomatic means the mind
making the body ill, or illnesses which have been created
physically within the body by derangement of the mind. -
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

psychotherapist: a person skilled in or occupied with treatment
of mental disorder by any of various means involving
communication between a trained person and the patient and
including suggestion, counseling, psychoanalysis, etc.

pulp: magazines, printed on cheap paper (hence the term pulp,
from the wood pulp used in the manufacture of the paper), devoted
to sensational literature; for instance, cowboy and detective
stories.

punch: conduct oneself, especially against difficulties, with
continued effort, determination and morale.

puppy: presuming, conceited or empty-headed.

Puritan: any member of a Protestant group in England and the
American Colonies who, in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, wanted a reformation of the Church of England, so as
to purify it from elaborate ceremonies and forms.

pursed: contracted into folds or wrinkles.

putting any stock in: having any faith in, giving credence to or
attributing real significance to.

quirk: a sudden twist, turn or stroke.

rabble-rousing: stirring up the emotions or prejudices of the
public; agitating.

racked up: tallied, accumulated or amassed as an achievement or
score.

racket: a dishonest scheme, trick, business, activity, etc.

radio waves: waves propagated through space or matter by electric
and magnetic fields generated by electrical currents.

ramparts: any defenses or bulwarks (persons or things that are
defenses or protections).

randomity: the ratio of unpredicted motion to predicted motion. -
Scientology Abridged Dictionary.

rattle on: to talk rapidly and incessantly.

Reform Bill: signed in 1832, the bill allowed more English to
vote and gave towns better representation at government level in
the British Isles.

regimen: a regulated course, as of diet, exercise or manner of
living, intended to preserve or restore health or to attain some
result.

regimes: social systems or orders.

relief: aid in the form of goods or money given as by a
government agency to persons unable to support themselves.

repeater technique: the repetition of a word or phrase in order
to produce movement on the time track into an entheta
(enturbulated theta) area containing that word or phrase. -
Science of Survival.

reserves: men or units in the armed forces not on active duty but
subject to call.

restimulated: in a condition wherein a past memory has been
reactivated due to similar circumstances in the present
approximating circumstances of the past. -Basic Dictionary of
Dianetics and Scientology.

reticent: habitually silent or uncommunicative.

ridge: a solid body of energy caused by flows and dispersals
which have a duration longer than the duration of flow. Any piece
of matter could be considered to be a ridge in its last stage. -
Scientology 8-8008.

rife: frequently or commonly occurring; widespread.

rigged: put together, prepared for use or arranged.

right down our alley: within our area of knowledge, interest,
etc.

Rockies: the Rocky Mountains, a major mountain system in western
North America extending from New Mexico to Alaska.

roentgen: a unit of measurement of radiation.

Rorschach: a type of mental test aiming at determination of
personality traits through interpretation of inkblots.

Rotarians: members of Rotary International, a worldwide
organization composed of business and professional men who meet
to further the Rotary ideal of service, which is thoughtfulness
of and helpfulness to others in business and community life.

round off: end in a satisfactory way; put a finishing touch on;
finish nicely.

rubles: Russian monetary unit and silver coins or pieces of
money.

run amok: to rush about in a frenzy to kill.

run, on the: escaping or hiding from the police.

run out: erase. -Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought.

sadistic: of or like a sadist, one who gets pleasure from
inflicting physical or psychological pain on another or others.

salt of the earth, the: a person or group of people having the
best personal qualities, the best character, etc.

Sao Paulo: the largest city of Brazil and capital of the state of
the same name.

savvy: (slang) to understand.

saw, old: an old saying, often repeated; proverb.

Schicklgruber: Adolf Hitler. This name comes from his father, who
was illegitimate and for a time bore his mother's name,
Schicklgruber, but by 1867 had established a claim to the name
Hitler. Adolf never used any other name, and the name
Schicklgruber was revived by his political opponents in Germany
and in Austria in the 1930s. See also Hitler in this glossary.

schizophrenia: (psychiatry) a mental illness in which an
individual is being two people madly inside of himself, he has
two violently opposed personalities, both of which are himself -
Lecture of 18 December 1953.

schizophrenic-melancholia: a supposed mental disorder made up of
characteristics of schizophrenia and great depression of spirits
and activity, gloomy thoughts and fears and often hallucinations.

Scholastic: a philosopher and theologian (one who is skilled or
trained in the study of religion and religious beliefs) of the
Middle Ages. See also Middle Ages in this glossary.

Scholasticism: the dominant school of the Middle Ages, based on
the authority of the Church Fathers and of Aristotle. It was
characterized by a formal method of discussion. See also
Aristotle in this glossary.

scourges: any causes of serious trouble or affliction.

semantics: the meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning, of a
word, sign, sentence, etc.

serenity: the quality or state of being calm and peaceful.

servitude: slavery or bondage of any kind.

shot to hell: in a state of great disorder or confusion.

sicker than a pup: extremely or violently sick.

silica negras: a made-up foreign phrase meaning "black sand."

Silver Spring: a city in Maryland, north of Washington, DC, of
which it is a suburb.

sine waves: waves which follow a certain geometric pattern.

skunk: a despicable, offensive person.

slap-happy: elated; dizzy with success or joy.

snubbed: treated with scorn or contempt; slighted or ignored.

socialists: people who support the theory or system of social
organization by which the means of production and distribution
are owned, managed or controlled by the state or by associations
of workers.

Socrates: (470? -- 399 B.C.) Greek philosopher and teacher who is
generally regarded as one of the wisest men of all time. He drew
forth knowledge from his students by pursuing a series of
questions and examining the implications of their answers. He
looked upon the soul as the seat of both waking consciousness and
moral character.

soggy: spiritless, dull or stupid.

somatics: body sensations, pains or discomforts. -HCOB 23 April
1969.

soporific: causing or tending to cause sleep.

soup-dunk, did a: made-up word from in the soup and dunk meaning
"got into great difficulty."

soup, in the: in trouble.

sovereign: a British gold coin valued at twenty shillings, or one
pound, which went out of circulation after 1914. See also pound
in this glossary.

space opera: of or relating to time periods on the whole track
millions of years ago which concerned activities in this and
other galaxies. Space opera has space travel, spaceships,
spacemen, intergalactic travel, wars, conflicts, other beings,
civilizations and societies, and other planets and galaxies. It
is not fiction and concerns actual incidents and things that
occurred on the track. See also whole track in this glossary.

specie: money in the form of coins, especially gold or silver
coins; metal money.

Springfield Armory: an armory established in Springfield,
Massachusetts by the U.S. Congress in 1794. This armory produced
rifles that were used as standard infantry weapons in the U.S.

squared: correctly built, finished, etc.

squaring (him) around: setting or putting (him) right or in
order.

square the beef: stop or ease a complaint as, from a victim, by
returning his money, or through influence with the police or
politicians. (Originally and mainly underworld use.)

stable datum: one datum, one factor, one particular in a
confusion of particles that keeps things from being in a
confusion and on which other things can be aligned. Any confusing
motion can be understood by conceiving one thing to be
motionless. The one thing selected and used becomes the stable
datum for the remainder. -The Problems of Work.

Stader splint: a metal bar with projecting pins that are driven
into the bone fragments of a break in order to prevent any motion
of the fractured bone.

stalemated: (chess) a position where one cannot move any piece
except the king and cannot move the king without putting it in
check (liable to capture).

Stalinists: people who support or advocate the principles and
ideas of Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Russian revolutionary and
head of the U.S.S.R. from 1924 to 1953.

stark staring mad: completely mad.

State Department: the department of the executive branch of the
U.S. government in charge of relations with foreign countries.

static: something which doesn't have wavelength, so it is not in
motion; it doesn't have weight, it doesn't have mass, it doesn't
have length, breadth or any of these things. It is
motionlessness. -Lecture of 9 October 1951.

steam, under your own: without any help from others.

still hunts: hunts for game carried on stealthily, as by
stalking, or under cover, as by ambush.

Stop-C-S: Stop-Change-Start, a Scientology process in which the
auditor has the preclear stop his body and then change his body
and then start his body, in that order. -HCO Training Bulletin of
30 November 1956.

stopgap: a temporary substitute; makeshift.

strait-laced: narrowly strict or severe in behavior or moral
views.

strata: a level or grade of people or population with reference
to social position, education, etc.

Strategic Air Command: a U.S. Air Force command charged with
international strikes, especially nuclear attacks.

strontium 90: a form of the element strontium, which occurs in
the fallout from a hydrogen-bomb explosion. It is extremely
dangerous because it is easily absorbed by the bones and tissues
and may eventually replace the calcium in the body. See also H-
bomb in this glossary.

subcaliber machine gun: referring to a submachine gun, a
lightweight automatic weapon designed to be fired from the
shoulder.

sub-Thompson machine gun: the Thompson submachine gun, a
lightweight and portable .45-caliber firearm. See also .45 in
this glossary.

succumb: to yield or submit to an overpowering force; give in or
give up.

sucker: a person easily cheated or taken in.

Suez: a seaport in Egypt on the Suez Canal, a ship canal that
joins the Mediterranean and Red Seas.

Sullivan Law: originally a gun-registration law enacted in New
York in 1911 requiring owners of handguns to be registered and
licensed. Since then the term has become a synonym for "gun
registration" in this country.

sunfast: not subject to fading in sunlight, as a dye, fabric or
garment.

superfluity: superabundance; excess.

superstratosphere: the upper regions of the stratosphere, that
portion of the atmosphere beginning between five and ten miles
above the earth.

supplants: takes the place of.

swamp: overcome, overwhelm; ruin.

swath: a long strip, track or belt of any particular kind.

swaths: great quantities of. (Taken from the meaning of measures
of grassland, originally reckoned by the breadth of one sweep of
the scythe.)

synthesize: to form something by combining parts or elements.

synthetic: of, by, or using synthesis (the putting together of
parts or elements so as to make a whole).

Syria: a country (officially the Syrian Arab Republic) in
southwestern Asia at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, south
of Turkey.

tack: course of action or conduct.

taped: fully appraised or summed up, completely "weighed up" or
assessed; as if measured with a tape. When one has a situation
taped, it also implies having things under control.

tap, on: ready for use; on hand; available.

taxation without representation: a phrase, generally attributed
to James Otis about 1761, that reflected the resentment of
American colonists at being taxed by a British Parliament to
which they elected no representatives. It became an anti-British
slogan before the American Revolution; in full, "Taxation without
representation is tyranny."

tea: (slang) marijuana.

technicolor: bright, intense colors.

teeth, armed to the: (often humorous) fully armed with the
necessary weapons, tools, etc.

teeth, into the teeth of: directly against; into the face of.

teetotaler: a person who never drinks alcoholic liquor.

telepathic: by telepathy (the communication of one mind with
another by means other than the five senses).

teletype: a trademark for a form of telegraph in which the
message is typed on a keyboard that sends electric signals to a
machine that prints the word.

tenpins: pins set up to be knocked down in the game of bowling.

terminals: things that can receive, relay or send communications.
-Scientology Abridged Dictionary.

Tesla, Nikolai: (1856-1943) American electrician and inventor. He
made many discoveries and inventions of great value to the
development of radio transmission and the field of electricity.

T formation: (football) an offensive formation with the
quarterback behind the center, the fullback behind the
quarterback, and a halfback at each side of the fullback.

.38: a pistol or revolver using a cartridge approximately .38
inches in diameter.

theater: a place where some action proceeds; the scene of action.
The theater of operations of an army embraces all the territory
it may desire to invade and all that it may be necessary to
defend.

Thor: (Norse mythology) the god of thunder, might and war; also
associated with marriage, the hearth and agriculture. He was
armed with a magical hammer that returned to him, iron gloves and
a belt of strength.

tiller: a bar or handle for turning a boat's rudder (a broad,
flat, movable piece of wood or metal hinged vertically at the
back of a boat or ship, used for steering).

time, in the nick of: at the last possible moment (to prevent
something unpleasant or bad from happening).

TNT: a powerful explosive, which is unaffected by ordinary shocks
and must be set off with a detonator. Because it does not react
with metals, it can be used in filling metal shells.

tonsillectomies: operations in which a surgeon removes a person's
tonsils (the two soft, oval masses of tissue at the back of the
mouth).

transorbital leucotomy: (psychiatry) an operation which, while
the patient is being electrically shocked, thrusts an ordinary
dime-store ice pick into each eye and reaches up to rip the brain
apart.

trichinosis: the disease caused by eating undercooked pork
containing trichinae (hairlike worm parasites in the body of man
and animals that feed on flesh and other animal matter).

Trojan Wars: in Greek mythology, the wars between Greeks and
Trojans. The Greeks besieged Troy for nine years. They finally
won when, pretending to depart, they left a wooden horse, which
the Trojans, ignoring warnings, took into the city. Warriors
hidden inside the horse opened the city gates to the Greek army
which sacked Troy.

tumultuous: full of confusion, agitation or disturbance.

turret: a small tower at an angle of a building, as of a castle
or fortress, frequently beginning some distance above the ground.

two-way comm: two-way communication, communication between two
people in which each one takes turns, while the other listens
attentively, in expressing fully his ideas on a subject. This is,
therefore, communication in two directions. -Scientology Abridged
Dictionary.

Tyre: a town in southwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
Built on an island, it was an ancient seaport and had far-flung
colonies by 1100 B.C. Tyre was famous for its commerce and its
purple dye.

ultraviolet: having to do with ultraviolet rays, the invisible
rays present in sunlight.

unalienable: that cannot be given away or taken away.

under, get out from: to extract oneself from a failing,
embarrassing or unpleasant enterprise, job or relationship.

under the counter: secretly and unlawfully; without the knowledge
of other people.

usurped: taken or assumed (power, a position, property, rights,
etc.) and held in possession by force or without right.

vagaries: unpredictable or erratic actions, occurrences, courses
or instances.

valences: personalities. The term is used to denote the borrowing
of the personality of another. Valences are substitutes for self
taken on after the fact of lost confidence in self. A preclear
"in his father's valence" is acting as though he were his father.
-Ability Major 4; Lecture of 18 October 1961.

Vatican: the chief residence of the pope in Vatican City (an
independent state within the city of Rome), now also including a
library, archives, art museum, apartments and administrative
offices.

Veblen, Thorstein: (1857-1929) American author and teacher. He
was associate professor of economics at Stanford University
(1906-09) and for almost ten years was the managing editor of The
Journal of Political Economy.

vogue: general favor or acceptance; popularity.

wagon: paddy wagon; literally and figuratively any "wagon" or
vehicle used to remove a person to a place of restriction, as to
an insane asylum.

wake, in the wake of: following directly or closely behind.

Wall Street: area in lower Manhattan, New York City, center of
the city's great financial district. The site of major U.S. stock
exchanges and other important institutions. The term Wall Street
has come to designate U.S. financial interests.

wampum: small beads made of shells and used by North American
Indians for money, ornaments, etc.

W.C.T.U.: Women's Christian Temperance Union, an organization
dedicated to promoting moderation, and more often, complete
abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor. Founded in
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, it employed educational and social as
well as political means in promoting legislation.

wedge: any action or procedure that serves to open the way for a
gradual change.

weenie: an element or symbol of good fortune, enthusiasm or
desire.

weighted: adjusted or adapted to a representative value.

wheeze: (slang) an overworked remark, joke, or gag.

whole cloth, out of: without foundation in fact.

whole hog: as completely and thoroughly as possible.

whole track: the moment-to-moment record of a person's existence
in this universe in picture and impression form. -HCOB 12 July
1965.

woof and warp: the underlying structure upon which something is
built; a foundation; base. wraps: secrecy; censorship;
concealment.

wraps, keep (someone) under careful: keep a person hidden or
silent.

Wundt: Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920), German physiologist and
psychologist, originator of the false doctrine that man is no
more than an animal.

yackle-yackle: from yack-yack, meaning to talk or chatter
persistently or meaninglessly.

yoke: the condition of being under another's power or control;
slavery; bondage.

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