Word: phrase
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...schedule has always been a bit erratic and this year's was set months ago.) But behind the predictable fight was a practical challenge: How should we talk about hunger in America in a way that both accurately describes the problem and pushes people to solve it. The dehydrated phrase "food insecurity," in fact, has been the accepted language of aid workers and the U.N. and government studies for years. Until now, Americans who had to scramble to put food on the table but somehow always managed, with the help maybe of a food bank or soup kitchen, were said...
...drunken photos. A growing number of Harvard undergraduates have a penchant for posting photos of themselves and their friends guzzling from beer funnels or passed out on the sticky floor of a sweaty dorm room in Currier House. The captions for such photos usually involve the phrase “OMG was so EFFIN’ trashed DO NOT REMEMBER THIS AT ALL,” or something along those lines. This sort of thing has always puzzled me. What is the value in that pre-hangover photo, and what memory does it preserve? Look, Ma, I can?...
...Chavez's heavy-handed governance has also helped fuel the opposition. Praising Ramirez for his speech caught on tape, Chavez suggested jokingly that his minister be nominated for a Nobel Prize in publicity for inventing a phrase that calls the company's color "red, very red." He urged Ramirez to repeat his remarks "100 times more" and bragged that other institutions like the military also supported his revolution...
...lift from Sondheim's Follies song "In Buddy's Eyes." Little Edie's second-act fashion statement, "The Revolutionary Costume for Today," is another Sondheimlich maneuver (that's David Zippel's pun, for praise or blame, not mine); and Big Edie's "The Cake I Had" takes its repetitive phrase from West Side Story's "A Boy Like That...
...such a classic “over-participator.” She keeps going on about the reading, citing quotes from books that aren’t even part of the course, and using far too many hand gestures. In one of her monologues she even used the phrase “et cetera,” which is simply unacceptable. You know you’re talking too much when you have to take a time-out mid speech to take a sip from your pink Nalgene bottle...