Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hanoi also claimed that it had firm evidence of Peking's long planning for the invasion. Newsmen based in the capital, taken on a guided tour of the front, were shown printed Vietnamese phrase books found on the bodies of dead Chinese soldiers. Among other things, the eight-page pamphlets contained instructions to be given Vietnamese prisoners ("You will be taken to a safe place and allowed to rest ... Don't worry. Your wound will be treated immediately...
...Masson or Ernst, still less in exoticism and neurosis, like Dali, but in hallucinatory ordinariness. One of the obsessions of surrealism was the way inexplicable events intruded into everyday life. With his dry, matter-of-fact technique, Magritte painted things so ordinary that they might have come from a phrase book: an apple, a comb, a derby hat, a cloud, a birdcage, a street of prim suburban houses, a businessman in a dark topcoat, a stolid nude. There was not much in this list that an average Belgian clerk, around 1935, might not have seen in the course...
Even the ultra-casual swimming far who watches aquatic sports only between the women's gymnastics and men's hoop on the tube every fourth year recognizes the source of the above phrase...
...Ravenal and arranged by her with Pat Powers and Michael Schubert, it flowed from standard pop to jazz to a wonderful Carpenters imitation in the song "Mister Ivy," a song of passionate yearning in which Patti's quest comrades. (Ravenal also demonstrates her knack for a turn of phrase when Patti describes the most meaningful experience in her life--teaching an orphan to swim while getting 780/810 board scores...
...will insist that despite the pomposity of grandiloquent phrases about Human Rights and endless phrase-mongering about liberty and justice, one must always judge a nation by the quality of its humanism and the manner in which it answers these simple questions: Are your poor clothed and fed? Are your oppressed employed? Do they have access to free and high quality health care? Do they share in the fruits of your nation's bounty...