Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each of these aspects of the Barnes Bill has many implications. The vagueness of the "doctrine" phrase, for instance, could render the act unconstitutional, as the Supreme Court has overruled several bills because of their lack of definition. But notice in particular the ramifications of the section making the employer a potential lawbreaker. Not only will school and university administrations take care not to employ Communist Party members, but they would be afraid for their own hides to hire anyone liberal enough to be suspected of advocating communist doctrines. The tremendous restriction of this aspect of the bill on academic...
Serrell Hillman, who was assigned to do the union's history, had trouble overcoming a desire to succumb to Petrillo's histrionics. Once, when a flying finger grazed him, he couldn't help smiling. Petrillo paused. "So," he murmured, effectively lowering his voice to match the phrase, "he laughs. Why do you laugh, kid?" Hillman explained that he had been impressed by the dramatic effects. "Oh," said the musicians' boss, "you should see me when I'm really worked...
...Spiritual Union." Then Bevin gave them the phrase they were waiting for: "Western Union." It was a milestone in postwar history. Bevin explained it: "I believe the time is ripe for a consolidation of Western Europe...
Early ambulation ("an ugly phrase for a beautiful idea") means that patients are out of bed as soon as possible, perhaps one or two days after the operation. Result: less pneumonia, better healing of muscles, fewer "sick-man complexes"; patients can relieve bowels and bladder normally, eat better, sleep better, feel better...
...longhand, are a clear synthesis of political and economic reasoning that often echoes in Parliament. Many an M.P. would be tongue-tied if he could not say, as Anthony Eden said last week, "I saw . . . by the Economist. . . ." ("Soft underbelly of Europe" was Crowther's phrase before it was Churchill...