Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel obliged to single out for criticism a phrase found in your acount of my arrest (CRIMSON, Feb. 10). The phrase in question follows a description of the officer's abusive treatment and uncivil request; it is "Coulter refused..." As you will appreciate, this suggests that my reply was of a kind with the officer's request, and that to his unreasonable demand I returned an equally unreasonable and categorical refusal. The truth is that I protested his treatment and attempted to clarify my rights as a citizen. It was this protest which led to my arrest...
...Roman Catholic St. Joan's Alliance, though alarmed at the number of whores on London streets (a spectacle unmatched in the U.S. or Europe), opposed the bill as likely to make prostitution more covert, and thus more professionally organized. Labor's cherubic Anthony Greenwood objected to the phrase "common prostitute" in the bill as violating the traditional presumption of innocence. Not for long did the debate stay on this legalistic level...
...than he is, climbed down into coal mines to spread the word. He spoke over the radio, taught the maids in the hotels he stayed at how to use their navels while cleaning and scrubbing.*His crusade got results. Executives found themselves less tense, employees more eager, and the phrase "Your navel isn't in it" is now a part of the Japanese language. Today 160 firms and organizations are members of the Navel Heaven movement...
...Lorillard Co. 2½years ago, Chairman Lewis Gruber, 63, rescued his aged (founded 1760), slipping company by gambling heavily on smokers' future desires. He changed the filter and blend of Kent cigarettes to cut down tar and nicotine and -as he says in the kind of phrase that sounds snappy around a boardroom table -give smokers "less of the things they have been smoking filters to get less of." Result, in the statistics that look wonderful on a boardroom chart: Kent's domestic sales zipped from 3.4 billion to 36 billion a year; Lorillard's stock...
...siege around Alhucemas was relieved, the airfield recaptured, the road to Tetuán reopened. On a visit to Tetuán last week, new Leftist Premier Abdallah Ibrahim borrowed a phrase from France's famed pacifier of Morocco. Marshal Lyautey: "The government had to show force to avoid using...