Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...17th Century English proverb posed it thus: "Does ever any man cry stinking fish to be sold?" "Stinking fish" is a phrase much heard in Britain these days. Those to whom Britain's present or future looks dark are charged with "crying stinking fish." Optimists and apologists for Britain's troubles bravely insist: "I'm not going to cry stinking fish." The sense of it: don't sell Britain short...
...Speaker: "... I did not hear that word. I did hear the Greek phrase. If the Taoiseach says he is not correctly reported, I will accept his word...
...when faced with automatic retirement and came to the U.S. to start a new career on Harvard's philosophy faculty. He has written some 20 books on mathematics, science and philosophy (best-known: Science and the Modern World, Process and Reality), sometimes with humor and felicitous phrase, often in impenetrably thorny prose...
...Anticoli, a pretty young girl who was chief Communist organizer practically swung the election singlehanded when she shouted in a village square speech: "The landowners call us barbarians. They say we are Zulus. All right, we'll be Zulus. Long live the Zulus!" No one knew what the phrase meant, but it was wonderfully catchy, so whitewashed letters reading "Viva Gli Zulu!" appeared all over town...
...upon Don S. Willner '47, head of the newly-organized Students for Democratic Action, to testify at a hearing tomorrow afternoon in the White House. In a statement made last night, Willner said that he would present the SDA stand against "universal training," which he brands "a sugar-coated phrase for compulsory military service...