William Lewis Safire (/ˈsæfaɪər/; né Safir; December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009) was an American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter...

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of such rules compiled by William Safire on Sunday, 4 November 1979, in his column "On Language" in The New York Times. Safire later authored a book titled...

capturing the most beautiful women during battle to bring home as wives. William Safire claimed that the term "trophy wife" was coined by Julie Connelly, a...

[better source needed] while some claim an earlier origin. In April 2007, William Safire promoted a search to unearth its origins.[clarification needed] The...

agencies were sometimes referred to as alphabet soup. Libertarian author William Safire notes that the phrase "gave color to the charge of excessive bureaucracy...

phrase's etymology can be attributed to New York Times language columnist William Safire, who wrote extensively on this question. The Oxford English Dictionary...

slang meaning "unexpected", "odd" or "strange". In Safire's Political Dictionary, columnist William Safire writes that the phrase "out of left field" means...

[bi + kini] was purposeful. The "-kini family" (as dubbed by author William Safire), including the "-ini sisters" (as dubbed by designer Anne Cole) has...

limited authority while taking impressive titles. The American writer William Safire wrote that "everyone assumes [the name] Pooh-Bah merely comes from [W...