Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cries In the Council. The Council (in U.N.'s apt official phrase) was "seized with" the India-Pakistan conflict. India's Minister without Portfolio, N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar, accused Pakistan of arming Afghans and tribesmen of the North-West Frontier Province for their raids on the state of Kashmir (which recently joined India). His Oxford accent crackling crisply, Ayyangar appealed to the Security Council to use its "undoubted influence and power...
...pecked underneath his blotter and back of the beer cans on the window still. Have to go farther back than that, Vag mused, and started looking through his desk. Going to be one of those long nights again. Reading lists for Reading Period, went the phrase, but it still, wasn't too late if he hurried. He looked again and found them tucked inside his ski boot. Better and better...
...Goths and the Wends, began his speech from the throne. It was a comfortable occasion. His Majesty had delivered substantially the same speech 40 times before, and 40 times his subjects had been glad to hear it. "Our relations with other nations," the King said in his accustomed phrase, "are good...
...months the French newspapers have been translating the U.S. phrase "cold war" as la guerre froide. To an imaginative and linguistically fertile people, this lacked a certain savor. Last week a new and entirely French label for the "cold war" was launched by one-eyed President of the Republic Vincent Auriol himself...
...that made most lists of the year's best ten-Director Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire (RKO Radio) and Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century-Fox)-were also the first forthright attacks on anti-Semitism by the movies, which, in Groucho Marx's phrase, had previously dared to criticize only the man-eating shark. The New York Film Critics voted Gentleman's Agreement the year's best film (9 to 7 over Britain's Great Expectations...