Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexicans themselves had a phrase for it: "The dance of the millions." Next month, for the first time in Mexican history, the National Lottery will hold a $2 million drawing. But a complete ticket costs $400, is not for the ordinary man. The bullfight, once the national sport, has also become the privilege of the few; big spenders pay from $20 to $30 for a seat each Sunday. At the jai-alai Frontōon four nights a week the betting is hysterical...
...Harvard football team in general, both of which met with speedy and heated denials from the persons concerned, are merely further exhibition of Hub sports writing that could be labelled most generously as "colorful." A more accurate appellation might be 'gossip-mongering," but that's not a pretty phrase...
...remember going into Mr. Wallace's office one day. ... I said to him: 'What we need in this country is a lobby for the people.' He said that was a good phrase which he might use at some time, which he later did. Does this make me the author of Mr. Wallace's policies...
...health, became a six-foot Maine woods' guide and first woman to hold a Maine guide license; in Lewiston, Me. She modeled the first short-skirt sports costume for women (seven inches from the ground) at the National Sportsman Show of 1895, was credited with coining the phrase "Playground of the Nation" for her native state, was believed to have caught more fish with a fly than any other woman...
Seems to me you have somewhat overstepped the bounds of journalistic facts and truth in coining your acidly brilliant phrase "the golden boys" to describe members of the Air Line Pilots' Association [TIME...