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...Madden took a position as a color commentator for CBS, immediately finding success with his blend of sharp technical insight and muddled diction. Among the classic phrases attributed to him: "He was standing in the hole waiting for something to develop...and WHAP!, he got developed." "Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon." He also coined the phrase "doink...
Haven’s presentation was not entirely smooth sailing—suffering at one point from the actor’s misattribution of the phrase “Live Free or Die” to the Massachusetts state license plate. In fact, the phrase is the state motto of New Hampshire...
...percent approval rating while the party of his opponents, the GOP, polled its lowest approval rating this week in the 25-year period the question has been asked. Obama spoke at length of the Czech Republic’s history and road to independence, flawlessly pronouncing the Czech phrase for “Velvet Revolution,” the movement that ousted Communism from the country...
...There was no memo, no guidance. This is the opinion of a career civil servant.' U.S. Office of Management and Budget spokesman KENNETH BAER, on an e-mail from the Defense Department declaring that George W. Bush's phrase war on terror would be replaced by overseas contingency operation...
...Administration has stopped using the phrase, and I think that speaks for itself. Obviously.' U.S. Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON, saying she hadn't received a directive to stop using war on terror--it's "just not being used...