Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their half-whimsical, half-serious catalogue, the literate authors' own highly ambivalent feelings about the art of rhetoric emerge: "It is the bag of crafty tricks for common word-mongers; it is the sublime esthetic for the consummate orator." That plainly smacks of enthymeme ("out of the seeming clash of contraries a meaning"), as in "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
Popkin added that "there's an incredible bag of tricks that go along with grand juries in this country," and said that people should not worry so much about the privileges of scholars and journalists but instead should "clean up the grand jury...
...They were talking to us very affably," Tifft said. "Then one took the gun out of the bag, and told us to sit down and take the money out of our wallets. There was no break in the conversation; we had no inkling. It was just out of the blue...
...moment hesitant about rolling back some of those advancements," said Warner. "We will look at the whole general bag of things, all the way from the celebrated Z-grams on hair, beards and beer." Warner admitted that he was "under a great deal of pressure" from Zumwalt's critics, and said: "Yes, I would say there is free discussion of this subject in the Navy right now and I welcome, I encourage...
...uttered loud exclamations of fatigue and disgust, examining the situation in the light of their own needs..." Poor old psychoanalysis gets its lumps again in The Sandman. The lover of the analysand writes a very convincing letter to the analyst, arguing respectfully that "Joy is not Susan's bag," and that she really would rather use the money to buy a piano...