Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...using the phrase "ecclesiastical brekekekex koäx," did your Religion editor intend to compare delegates to ecumenical conferences to 1) young gentlemen at Yale, or 2) frogs...
...Neither. TIME used the phrase in its Aristophanic meaning, as the froggy sound of an argumentative chorus...
...question was asked a million times. Britain, which has recently looked upon the U.S. as somewhat hysterical about the danger of war, was swept by a wave of alarm-but not of panic. The London Daily Mirror reported the British people as "calmly bewildered and apprehensively steady." The phrase was very British, but it described the attitude of the Western world in general. The West was braced for a blow-and it wanted desperately to know whether the blow was likely to come soon, or whether it might be postponed a year, or ten, or more...
...Poet Carl Sandburg, author of the sturdy phrase quoted by Mayor Kennelly, is not included among the Great Books authors...
...aggressive warfare." There is no use, it insists, in Britons assuming a cloak of false modesty about these many talents. "These are very necessary traits . . . nowadays, not at all to be apologized for." In the world's present state, "there is nothing more dangerous than the current cant phrase, 'We must gather together all the peace-loving nations.' Unless the peace-loving nations can induce one or two war-loving nations to join the club, it is simply an invitation to be plundered. The larger the assembly of sheep the more it appeals to the wolves...