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Dickson was born in Yonkers, New York, the son of William A. Dickson Jr. and the former Isabelle Cornell. His father was a bank executive who served as president of the Yonkers Savings Bank and the Manhattan Savings Bank. His mother was the longtime director of the Dyckman Andrus Memorial
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Dickson also covered various aspects of the
English language in magazine articles in the 1970s. Topics include government acronyms, country music lyrics, and a whimsical look at the “poetry” of speeches that appeared had in the
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wrote that “Dickson is good at describing the work and very good at capturing the special character of each institute, and his judgments can be refreshingly direct.” He was a guest on the NBC show
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said the book “throws the spotlight on this new multi-billion dollar business that is transforming
America and may even be serving as a kind of secret government.” The journal
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Dickson's Word
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The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The
Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor
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The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The
Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor
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The Mature Person's Guide to Kites, Frisbees, Yo-Yos, and Other Childlike Diversions, 1977)
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in 1999 and 2009 have brought the number of terms covered to more than 10,000.)
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Contraband Cocktails: How America Drank When It Wasn't Supposed To
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Steel, Ronald (31 Oct 1971). "Making the Tolerable Intolerable".
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What's in a Name?: Reflections of an Irrepressible Name Collector
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Dickson, Paul (Mar 1971). "A Congressional Garden of Verse".
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Orlans, Harold (14 Jan 1972). "Think Tanks by Paul Dickson".
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Aken, Robert (15 Mar 1989). "Dickson Baseball Dictionary".
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Dickson was educated in the Yonkers schools and the
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