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The 1963 and 1980 books are both fine dictionaries, and a book that combines the best of those, carefully re-edited, with some solid, new lexicography based on the BDC , the World Book Dictionary , and the substantial Barnhart files, must be a high-quality dictionary.
In addition to their work in the Dictionary Companion , well regarded by lexicographers and other serious word people, the family Barnhart and their colleagues have directed much effort over the years to tracking and recording new English, and this latest publication is another in that line.
The date is often earlier than that of the citations given since these were selected from the Barnhart files as most illustrative of meaning and usage.
Two generations of the Barnhart family have been intimately involved in dictionary-making, certainly one of the most unusual family businesses one could imagine.
Beale can scarcely be held accountable for Barnhart's scholarship, but I can say that I personally know the term to have been used in the early 1950s, and I did not then get the impression that it had been coined for my benefit.