Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be tragic, indeed, if another period of spiritual bankruptcy were to be foisted upon the United States and the world. What is called for is a 'tough-minded idealism,' to borrow Mr. Conant's phrase, that will utilize the moral and idealistic energy generated during the war for peacetime social goals, that will establish practical aims for common action. "Tough-minded idealists" are needed to lead and implement such a program. Only thus may this country preserve its moral leader shop among nations and continue to lead the way to peace and well-being...
Many a grower, who feared that a bad crash in cotton might still be ahead, began mumbling ephus-iphus-ophus, a meaningless phrase that Southern crapshooters use while making a critical roll. Many a worried millowner and converter, hedging to protect heavy inventories of high-priced cotton, helped cotton down by feverishly selling futures...
...vaudeville phrase, "hard to follow," meaning that it is difficult to please the audience when your act follows the star attraction, can be applied to Hollywood's expansion of the story. Hemingway is very "hard to follow." That Producer Mark Hellinger and Siodmak manage to do as well as they have is sufficient tribute to their skill. Employing no big name actors, they spin out a tautly wound picture which is very tough without the meaningless piling up of horror on horror that has plagued such productions as "The Big Sleep." Starting with the fact of the Swede's murder...
Harry Truman greeted it as "the world's supreme deliberative body." What were the bones behind that fat phrase? What was the "Assembly of the United Nations" whose advent in New York raised vague but earnest hope, vague and earnest bewilderment? People were becoming familiar with the eleven-man U.N. Security Council, which met in continuous session to keep the world's continuously threatened peace. What was there left for this 51-nation Assembly to do? Where did it come...
...most expensive Eversharp set then retailed for $8.75. Straus brought out a $14.75 set (the old one with gold trimmings), picked up a radio show to plug it. The show, Take It or Leave It, put a new phrase into the language ("the $64 question") and put Eversharp on the map. Then Eversharp found its own $64 answer, a $64 pen & pencil set. In two years, it sold $32,000,000 worth of the new sets, and $4,875,000 of solid gold $125 sets...