Sentence:  The word burned through the thin, dry-timbered wall of political <WSD>neology</WSD> in 1984, as Senator John Glenn's campaign manager in South Carolina, John Lawson, told the A.P. that Glenn's campaign “considered six Deep South states to be the crucial states for Glenn &mdash; the "fire wall", if you will, between Mondale and the nomination.” 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The study or art of neologizing (creating new words).