Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phrase had an anachronistic ring, as though the very subject of the nation's spy agency caused Bush to slip back into the vocabulary of the cold war. That would be natural enough. After all, no American institution is more closely identified with the 40-year struggle to stop the spread of communism and Soviet influence around the world. Whether American agents were restoring the Shah of Iran to the Peacock Throne in the '50s, organizing an invasion of Cuba in the '60s, or applying the Reagan Doctrine in Angola, Nicaragua and Afghanistan in the '80s, their real target...
...Latvia and Lithuania would eventually leave the U.S.S.R. and re-establish their independence. Gorbachev repeatedly said he accepted "in principle" the Baltics' right to independence. He was always quick to add his insistence that the leaders in those republics pursue their goal by "constitutional means." Everyone knew what that phrase meant: a slow process during which the central government would try to control both the throttle and the brake...
...Jewish woman told my brother something I think is absolutely vital for . black people to understand. It was a simple phrase: "Don't wait for people to love you." We are too preoccupied with whether white people love us or not, whether they are racist or not, what they think about the color of our skin or the texture of our hair. Who cares? We have to go forward and make our own opportunities...
...Italians, these immigrants are known sneeringly as vu cumpra, a distorted form of the phrase Vuoi comprare? -- Do you want to buy? Africans and Asians can be seen everywhere, selling cheap goods on the streets, pumping gas, trying to clean windshields at intersections. According to Italy's brand- new Ministry of Immigration, 662,047 registered foreigners from outside the E.C. are in the country, and probably another 600,000 are there illegally...
...kick than a caress. Any hulk who tries to pummel some manners into her will get his genitals twisted in a nutcracker. And at the end of the new movie named after her, she will offer the same tweaking to her boyfriend. Somebody in V.I. Warshawski has the right phrase for this all-man all-woman: "a female dick...