Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Short for the Tagalog phrase Sandigang, Hukbo Ng Pampbansang Pampalaya, which means the Reliable Army for National Liberation...
...freckled, pale-eyed, sharp-faced. He wears round wire-rimmed spectacles like Bertolt Brecht's and a bush of red hair teased out as if in ongoing electrocution. His chin and lips are hairless. No hippie he, his clothes are rumpled but clean, plain, even severe: in Ambrose's phrase, he dresses like a minor member of the North Korean U.N. delegation...
...resorted to another: "We were just following orders." Though Helms and others declined to implicate the chief executives in the most sensitive operations--for example. John F. Kennedy '40 in the attempts out Fidel Castro's life--the message was clear: the CIA was not, in Frank Church's phrase, "a rogue elephant rampaging out of control." The orders had to come from somewhere...
...Edelhart's writing is so exaggerated. Edelhart occasionally delivers a piercing phrase. His writing rarely drags, but among the abundant exclamation points lurk tired ideas--suggestions that today strike even grandmothers as quaint...
Your article on Air New England Sept. 24] is a subject close to my heart. The phrase cavalier attitude is one that I have used in reference to the several ticket agents it has been my misfortune to deal with. Indeed, I have seen people so angry that they seemed ready to punch the agent. I have been told by a snotty agent to "take another airline" if I didn't like the way they did things, while I overheard another agent say that she didn't "give a damn" if my bag was on the plane...