Word: clich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nobody expects them to. Most reporters would be shaken to the depths of their propriety if such a visitor should square off with an extended account of "I said to the President" and "the President said to me." Nevertheless, the emerging visitors are invariably queried; nevertheless, their dutiful clichés are carefully recorded: we had an interesting discussion . . . you can say it was an exchange of views . . . we explored the situation. . . . I am in complete agreement...
...best known to tabloid readers as the place where many sordid metropolitan melodramas reach their end. It is also a place where poor people can get complete medical service for very little ($1 to $5 a day) or, if they cannot pay, for nothing. Bellevue, though laboriously breezy and cliché-ridden, gives a thoroughgoing picture of the place-a smell of lysol; a babble of dialects and foreign tongues; tin benches (to discourage lice) in the clinic waiting rooms; tenement mothers cursing their offspring like truck drivers; dozing cops on guard at the bedsides of laid-up malefactors...
...week's culminating blow. As expected, the weak Abe Cabinet fell. But definitely not as expected, and to the Army's bitter confusion, the Cabinet which took its place was not militaristic, not chauvinistic, not even mystic-was for down-to-earth opportunism rather than any magic clichè of expansion. Worst of all, its Premier was a Navy man. And of all the Navy men in Japan, he was Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai -the tall, boyish, amiable, aristocratic, experienced (thrice Navy Minister), pro-U. S., moderate Naval Commander in Chief who last summer threw a monkey wrench into...