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The Operative’s Words

From the CIA’s 2011 style guide, recently acquired by the National Security Counselors, a legal nonprofit, following a Freedom of Information Act request.

AP English

by Harper’s Staff,

Newsroom chivalry

by George Cotliar,

You, too, can write the casual style

by William Hollingsworth Whyte,

The third floor

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,

One Man’s Meat

by E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White,

Another answer

by Harper’s Staff,

Causes of expletives

by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury,

Expletives and non-expletives

by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury,

Macaulay’s English

by T.E. Blakeley,

— (I)

by Harper’s Staff,

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The Operative’s Words

AP English

Newsroom chivalry

You, too, can write the casual style

The third floor

One Man’s Meat

Another answer

Causes of expletives

Expletives and non-expletives

Macaulay’s English

— (I)

March 1898

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