Word: brotherhood
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This useful thesaurus confirms the suspicion that today's political phrasemakers are members of an eminent brotherhood devoted to the preservation of the hoary phrase-curators of the cliche. Even more pertinent is the discovery by Author Safire, a public-relations executive and former campaign aide of Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller and Jacob Javits, that there are many misconceptions about the pedigrees of political bromides. The new language of politics is actually...
...thousands of their people were killed and hundreds of thousands maimed, the Ibo tribal elders of the East lost all hope of reconciliation within the Nigerian union. Fearing for the very survival of their tribe, they solemnly invoked the ancient power of Ibo Kwennu, the rallying cry of Ibo brotherhood. From family heads and village elders, there went out millions of messages to virtually every Ibo still living outside the East, each with a single, peremptory instruction: Come home. And from every corner of Nigeria, loaded down with what possessions they could salvage, the Ibo brethren came. They piled into...
...their cause. As a result, workers who provide vital public services are turning increasingly to work slowdowns -strikes, of a sort, that do not carry quite the onus of a full-scale walkout. As Anthony D'Avanzo, general chairman of New York City Lodge 886 of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, put it last week, "We don't want to strike, because that would just make us look like culprits...
...platforms in search of other transportation to their jobs. Engaged in a dispute with the ailing Long Island over job security, the union conceded that its men were refusing to work overtime to service trains and were scrupulously following federal safety rules that had long been ignored. But brotherhood officials also charged the railroad with "union busting"; at week's end they vowed to appeal a federal-court preliminary injunction ordering an end to the slowdown...
Sylvia agreed that the weather was humid and warm but she insisted she did not care. In fact, she said firmly, "That was the best mixer I have been to since Brotherhood Week when the Baptist Church decided to hold their annual dance in the Synagogue...