naggling	gnawing; nagging, quarreling or haggling.	
name, rank and serial number	name, rank and serial number: precise identity. Informal usage from a familiar clause of a US code of conduct for American men taken prisoner which states that a prisoner is "bound to give only name, rank, service number and date of birth."	
Nancy	a manufacturing city in northeastern France. It was an important railroad center that suffered heavily under bombardment in World War II.	
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.	
Napoleonic	of the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte	
Napoleons	persons similar to 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.	
nappies	(British informal) diapers.	
Narcotics Division	a reference to the Bureau of Narcotics established on 14 June 1930, as an independent bureau of the Treasury Department in the United States. Its alleged purpose is to protect individuals from dangerous drugs. It is charged with the responsibility of enforcing various controlled substance codes and laws passed in the US, issuing permits for sending drugs out of the US, regulating the quantity of drugs created in the states for medicinal purposes and licensing the production of poppies and manufacturing of opium products.	
Natal University	a university founded in 1909 at Pietermaritzburg (capital of Natal) with a branch in Durban, South Africa.	
National Academy of American Psychology	an association formed in 1957, under the auspices of the Founding Church of Scientology Washington, DC, which had the purpose of bringing about high ethical standards in the mental health field of America. It had a program to disseminate an eighteen point code of ethics (Loyalty Oath of Mental Practice) and get psychiatrists, psychologists, etc., signed and sworn to it.	
National Geographic	short for National Geographic Magazine, a monthly publication by the National Geographic Society containing geographical knowledge concerning all the corners of the Earth.	
National Insurance Company	a made‑up name for a company. National Insurance is the act or system in England of insuring employed persons against sickness or unemployment, especially in accordance with the National Insurance Acts which require certain wage earners to make weekly payments supplemented by their employers, in return for which they are entitled to State (government) assistance in sickness, unemployment, etc.	
National Museum	short for the United States National Museum, a part of the Smithsonian Institution (an organization founded in the US in 1846 with the purpose of "the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men"). The United States National Museum is located in Washington, DC and includes: the Museum of Natural History and the Museum of History and Technology.	
National Provincial Bank	one of the largest banks in England during World War I. It merged with Westminster Bank in the late 1960s and became the National Westminster Bank, as it is known today.	
NATO	abbreviation for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance established (1949) by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and the United States, and later joined by Greece and Turkey (1952) and West Germany (1955). Its aim is to safeguard the Atlantic community, particularly against the Soviet bloc.	
naturopath	one who practices naturopathy, a system or method of treating disease that employs no surgery or synthetic drugs but uses special diets, herbs, vitamins, massage, etc., to assist the natural healing processes.	
nautch girl	a professional dancing girl in India.	
naw	(dialect) no.	
near beer, Clear as	a humorously coined expression meaning very clear. Near beer is any of several clear, light brown malt beverages that are similar to beer but are usually considered nonalcoholic because they have an alcoholic content of less than ½ percent.	
neat as a pin	very neat or tidy.	
neck is way out, your	(colloquial) you are at risk or, especially, you have done or said something that might cause trouble.	
neck, breaking (one's)	(colloquial) hurrying or working very hard or fast to do something.	
neck, come down on (one's)	very severely rebuke or punish (one).	
needle in a haystack, looking for a	looking for a very small article amidst a mass of other things.	
needles in haystacks	very small articles amidst a mass of other things.	
neither the twain shall mix	a reference to the poem The Ballad of East and West by English writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Part of the poem reads:
"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet."	
Nelson eye	a blind eye. A reference to Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), admiral in the English navy, known as one of the greatest of naval strategists. In 1793 he was placed in command of the Agamemnon (a British navy ship) and sailed to join the Mediterranean fleet. This voyage began seven years of almost continual warfare at sea. Nelson was one of the British commanders who captured Corsica, though he was wounded there and lost the sight of his right eye.	
Nelsonian	of Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), admiral in the English navy, known as one of the greatest of naval strategists.	
neoarsphenamine	a yellow powder containing arsenic and used chiefly in the treatment of syphilis and yaws (an infectious disease of tropical regions characterized by a rash and sores on the skin).	
Nero	original name, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (A.D. 37-68) an ancient Roman emperor (A.D. 54-68), famed for his cruelty. He had his mother and wife killed and kicked his mistress to death while she was pregnant. Nero also persecuted Christians, blaming them for a great fire in Rome. A famous legend holds that Nero caused the great fire of Rome himself and played a stringed instrument while watching it. To say that someone is "fiddling while Rome burns" is to say that the person is indifferent to catastrophe.	
nerve, strain every	exert oneself to the utmost.	
Nescafé	(trademark) the brand name of an instant coffee.	
neuro-aural	a coined term from neuro-, which means "nerve" and aural, which means "of, pertaining to, or perceived by the ear."	
neurosis	an anti-social action or an anti-survival action which is compulsively undertaken by the individual.
(psychiatry) a condition wherein a person is insane or disturbed on some subject (as opposed to psychosis, wherein a person is just insane in general).	
neurotic	exhibiting behavior characteristic of one who is insane or disturbed on some subject (as opposed to psychotic, which is just insane in general).
(psychiatry) of or having a neurosis.
(psychiatry) one who exhibits behavior characteristic of neurosis.
exhibiting neurosis.
See also neurosis in this glossary.	
Neverleak	(brand name) a tire fluid manufactured by RM Hollingshead Corporation in Camden, New Jersey. It is used to seal a punctured tire and automatically inflate it with air for continued use.	
never‑never land	an unreal, imaginary or ideal state, condition, place, etc.	
New Jersey organization	a reference to the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, the first organization of Dianetics in the US which was established in Elizabeth, New Jersey.	
New South Guinea	a made-up name for a state.	
New Year's resolutions	the plans traditionally made by individuals on the first day of the year, New Year's, which is celebrated as a holiday in almost every country. The earliest of the ancient nations celebrated this day. In ancient Rome, the first day of the year was given over to honoring Janus, the god of gates and doors, of beginnings and endings. The month of January was named after this god. Janus had two faces and looked both ahead and backward. On the first day of the year the Roman people looked back to what had happened during the past year and thought of what the coming year might bring. The early English took over many of the Roman New Year customs. Later the English followed the custom of cleaning chimneys on New Year's Day which was supposed to bring good luck to the household the coming year. That tradition has changed through time. Instead of cleaning the chimney, resolutions are made to correct faults and bad habits, resolving to make the new year better than the one just ended.	
New York Institute of Photography	a prestigious school of photography founded in 1910 in New York City.	
New York Times	one of the largest circulating newspapers in the United States, published in New York.
a daily newspaper, published in New York City since 1851.	
Newsweek	a US weekly news magazine with a worldwide circulation.	
Newton	Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), English mathematician and natural philosopher, formulator of the laws of gravity and motion.	
Newton's Iaws	reference to the three laws of motion and interaction formulated by Sir Isaac Newton (1642‑1727) English scientist and mathematician. These laws are intended to describe how all moving bodies on the Earth react: (1) a body at rest remains at rest and a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by an external force; (2) the motion of a body changes in proportion to the size of the force applied to it; (3) every action produces an equal but opposite reaction.	
Newton's law of inertia	a reference to the three laws of motion and interaction formulated by Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), English scientist and mathematician. These laws are intended to describe how all moving bodies on the earth react:
(1)	a body at rest remains at rest and a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by an external force;
(2)	the motion of a body changes in proportion to the size of the force applied to it;
(3)	every action produces an equal but opposite reaction. 	
Niagara	a torrent or flood. From Niagara Falls: 
See also Niagara Falls in this glossary.	
Niagara Falls	a set of waterfalls on the Niagara River between the state of New York in the United States and Ontario in Canada. The river is nearly a mile across at the falls and flows approximately 15 million cubic feet of water per minute over straight drops ranging from 158 to 167 feet. At times individuals have gone over the falls in a barrel, though few have survived the ordeal. The first successful attempt was made in 1901 by a 43‑year-old woman, witnessed by thousands of spectators.	
nibbling	carping; making trifling objections or criticisms.	
niblick	(golf) a club with an iron head, the face of which has the greatest slope of all the irons, for hitting the ball with maximum loft (a high curve). Also called number nine iron. 
See also iron in this glossary.	
Nick	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of this lecture.	
nickel and a collar button, for a	variation of worth a nickel. A button is a thing of very small value.
See also nickel, worth a in this glossary.	
nickel, worth a 	(colloquial) be worth anything, usually used in negative sentences.	
nickels on the drums, dropping	contributing to a church or other religious organization, a nickel being five cents American, a small amount of money.	
Nicky	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of this lecture.	
nicotinic acid	same as niacin. A white, odorless, crystalline substance found in protein foods or prepared synthetically. It is a member of the vitamin B complex.	
Nietzsche	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher and poet. He denounced all religion and promoted the "morals of masters," the doctrine of perfecting man through forcible self-assertion and glorification of the "superman," as expressed in his most famous work, Thus Spake Zarathustra. Nietzsche was a professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland from 1869 until 1879, when severe eye and brain trouble forced him to retire on a pension. He lived at various health resorts in Italy and Switzerland until 1889, when he became hopelessly insane. Nietzsche's theories are regarded as having influenced the German attitudes in World War I and the Nazi regime.
See also Zarathustra in this glossary.	
Nineveh	the capital of the ancient empire of Assyria, situated on the east bank of the Tigris River, opposite modern Mosul, Iraq. Nineveh contained magnificent palaces and sculpture which have been unearthed in archaeological excavations. The city is thought to have been established circa 2300 B.C. It became the capital in the 700S B.C. and was destroyed in 606 B.C.	
nirvana	(Buddhism) the term nirvana literally means "blowing out" or "going out" or "extinguishing" of the fire of passion or flames of desire. According to Buddhist doctrine, nirvana is the state of perfect blessedness achieved by the extinction of individual existence and by the absorption of the soul into the supreme spirit, or by the extinction of all desires and passions.	
nitch of time, in the	a variation of the phrase in the nick of time, meaning just before it is too late.	
Nixon, R. M.	Richard Milhous Nixon (1913‑ ) a political leader of the twentieth century and 37th president of the United States (1969‑1974). As a member of Congress in the late 1940s, Nixon came to national attention through his strong support for the investigation of the alleged communist, Alger Hiss (an official in the Department of State who was accused of having been a secret agent for the Soviet Union during the 1930s). He was elected vice‑president twice under President Eisenhower, but later lost the presidential election of 1960 to John F. Kennedy. Nixon ran for governor of California in 1962 but was defeated at which point he retired from politics for several years and reemerged as the president at the end of the 60s.	
NKVD	in the USSR, the initials for the name of the government's secret-police organization from 1934 through 1946.	
nodule phase	(astrology) a reference to one of the two points at which the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic (the path that the sun appears to travel annually on the celestial sphere).	
noives	(New York dialect) nerves.	
Nome	a town in west central Alaska, where the winter temperatures range from -2 to -10 degrees Fahrenheit.	
non persona grata	(Latin) a person who is not welcome or acceptable.	
non-Aristotelian logic	a coined phrase from non- meaning "not" or "negation" and Aristotelian, of or having any relation to Aristotle (384322 B.C.), Greek philosopher. For nearly 2000 years after Aristotle many used his philosophy and doctrines in their own thinking. But to the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Aristotelianism was considered the straitjacket that kept learning in confinement. During that time, an attack was launched on the tradition of Aristotelian logic which supplied alternative materials on the subject of logic and continued into the mid-1900s.	
N'Orleans	(southern US dialect) short for New Orleans, a city in southeastern Louisiana, US. Jazz music originated in the late nineteenth century among black musicians of New Orleans.	
Norman	of the people who came from Normandy (northwest part of France) and conquered and became the rulers of England in the year 1066.	
Normandy landing	a reference to the invasion of Normandy, an event during World War II when Americans and the British invaded Normandy (a province of northern France).	
north	(slang) up.	
North American Indian	the native people of America. They were called Indians by Christopher Columbus when he was searching for India and found America.	
North and the South	an allusion to the American Civil War (1861-1865), in which the northern area of the United States, the states north of Maryland, the Ohio River and Missouri, making up most of the states that formed the Union side of the Civil War fought the southern area of the US, the group of eleven states that seceded from (withdrew formally from membership in) the United States in 1860 and 1861 because of various differences, especially over the issue of slavery. You have the North and the South fighting over the 1964 election, something like this. -PTPs, Overts and ARC Breaks (10 Nov. 64)	
North Korean	of North Korea. A reference to the Korean War, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations and communist North Korea (the northern half of the peninsula off northeastern China). The war began in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations declared North Korea the aggressor and sent troops, mostly from United States forces, to aid the South Korean army. In 1953, with neither side having a prospect of victory, a truce was signed.	
North Umbrella	a made‑up name for a city.	
North, the	the northern area of the United States, especially the states that fought to preserve the Union in the American Civil War (18611865). The Civil War was fought between the northern (Union) and southern (Confederate) states in which the Confederacy sought to establish itself as a separate nation. The war grew out of deep-seated differences between the social structure and economy of North and South, most notably over slavery; the South being majorly in favor of slavery.	
Northern Rhodesia	a former name of a region in south Africa, now called Zambia.	
Northumberland, Earl of	a reference to Henry Percy (ca. 1502-1537), the sixth Earl of Northumberland (a county in the northern part of England on the southern border of Scotland). He was a suitor of Anne Boleyn, who later became the wife of King Henry VIII (1491-1547).
See also Boleyn, Anne in this glossary.	
Northumbria	an early English kingdom in northern Britain.	
noteth	a humorous variation of the word "not," adding -eth which is an archaic ending for a word.	
Notting Hill Gate	the name of the street where HASI London was located in 1955.	
Novgorod, Dimitri	a made-up name for a Russian person. Novgorod is the name of a city in the northwest Soviet Union, southeast of Leningrad.	
Noz	a made-up name for a place.	
number 10's in, stick (one's)	(colloquial) a variation of the phrase put your foot in it, do or say something, especially unintentionally, that distresses or offends another person. Number 10 is a rather common size of men's shoe.	
number one	(colloquial) oneself.	
numbers, by the	(slang) in a prescribed way.	
Numidians	the people of Numidia, an ancient country in northern Africa (mainly in what is now eastern Algeria).	
nut house	(slang) an insane asylum; a prison and/or hospital for the mentally ill.	
nut, do (one's)	become angry; lose (one's) head; get worked up about something; go crazy.	
nutrilite	(biochemistry) any of several substances, as certain minerals, that, in minute quantities, serve as nutrients for microorganisms.	
nyet	(Russian) no.