Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personal Traits. A big (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.), smiling, pink-cheeked, blue-eyed Westerner, with thinning grey hair and an easy, friendly manner, he specializes in the homely, forthright phrase, a booming laugh, and a bone-crushing handshake; wears well-tailored blue, grey or brown suits, flashy ties, rimless glasses or glasses with colorless horn rims. He has a standing order that his office door remain open to all callers. He is a joiner: the American Legion, the Elks, the Masons (33rd degree and past Grand Master of California), the Native Sons of the Golden West...
...commonplace phrase in the United States. To most Americans, it is a simple suggestion that can be acted on with neither delay nor trouble. To most Americans, "food" is a word that carries little meaning, in these times compared with such words as "liberty" and "peace," or "communism" and "democracy." But in much of the rest of the world, the idea of "let's eat" is the dominant thought in the mind of every human being. When a man's food consumption averages 1,150 calories daily, he is not likely to be a communist or a democrat...
Would that be a solution? It would be terrifyingly simple. The proponents of such a preventive war (another phrase for it was "anticipatory retaliation") even gave their argument a specious touch of idealism. If a world government is the only way to peace, the argument ran, then a final, coldly calculated war is the quickest way to achieve...
...Hebrew phrase which is translated as "without form and void" in Genesis 1:2, is tohnvavohu. It is still highly current. Germans use it a lot these days to mean utter tarfu. In Palestine, too, it means chaos. Last week the situation in Palestine could only be described as tohuvavohu...
Crowther thought the situation was best described by a Little Rock (Ark.) newsman who used a term he had learned in wartime radar work: "American business is at a trembling top."* That "wonderfully expressive phrase," said Crowther, exactly describes how the indexes of prices, sales and national income have risen to a top "higher than anybody believed possible, and for months have stayed there . . . just quivering up and down." It also described the "strangely apprehensive mood that I found wherever I went...