Word: phrase
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...makes no indication that he is ready to return to that life just yet. Nor does he let slip any sign that he is willing to leave Harvard for greener--or at least less crimson--pastures. He sums up his future in the simple enigmatic phrase: "I don't intend to remain as Dean of the Faculty forever...
...changes came on all fronts. From above, Dean Henry Rosovsky was leading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences into its first major revision of the undergraduate curriculum in a decade--a revision that would spark considerable student opposition and place the ill-defined phrase "Core Curriculum" into a hundred newspaper columns. From below, students pressed for a new form of self-government, as asembly that would give students the powerful voice many believed they would never attain under the nine-year-old system of student-faculty advisory committees. And finally, from the outside world there arose a different kind...
...needlepoint sampler with the phrase THE BASIS OF POLITICS IS COMPROmise used to decorate House Speaker Thomas (Tip) O'Neill's office. Now it sits in Energy Secretary James Schlesinger's office, a trophy of a limited but significant victory last week in the bitter war over energy policy...
Richard Schickel's review of Sylvester Stallone's "F.I.S.T." needed a qualifying phrase, or else it was an unnecessary slap at American labor. Schickel said the film did not offer a "historical insight into how the American labor movement so quickly deteriorated into self-serving materialism...
...first phalanx of the middle finger is nearly half an inch longer than that of an ordinary hand." The President sometimes squinted with his left eye. All of these characteristics, according to Schwartz, are typical of Marfan's syndrome. In fact, Lincoln's "spiderlike legs," a phrase used by one of the President's contemporaries, was the very simile used in 1896 by French Physician Bernard-Jean Antonin Marfan when he described the syndrome that was named...