Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late rector of St. Paul's School was a man whose voice was sonorous and whose sentiments had style. St. Paul's boys, who called him "The Drip" long before that phrase had its present teenage connotation, never took him to their hearts, but educators knew Dr. Samuel Smith Drury as a man whose broadsides usually struck home. His bustling, benign successor, the Rev. Dr. Norman Burdett Nash, has neither style nor sonority, but he too hits his target. Last week, speaking at the 50th anniversary celebration at Connecticut's Choate School, Dr. Nash took...
...President Henry M. Wriston of Brown University publicly came to the horrendous conclusion that "formal peace making is already a failure" and termed the United Nations "a squalling brat of an infant with only a fifty-fifty chance of survival." Passing on to the war-spawned and Willkie-coined phrase, "One World," President Wriston declared that "we do not have 'one world' even in the physical sense any more," alluding to the shooting down of American fliers over Yugoslavia. Wriston concluded with the remark that "if peace is to come, it must be peace within your own minds and hearts...
...clue. Communists hissed every criticism of Russia. Obviously taken aback, he flinched. Once he looked up from his text and said imploringly: "I realize that the danger of war is much less from Communism than it is from imperialism." He was apparently frightened out of using at least one phrase in his prepared text-a reference to "native Communists faithfully following every twist and turn in the Moscow party line." He was also going to say: "The Russians should stop teaching that their form of Communism must . . . ultimately triumph over democratic capitalism." but thought better...
...collaborator and onetime Washington correspondent, under the name of Bruce Minton, for the New Masses. Printing the eviction notice, the Daily Worker accused the Branstens of "attacking the basic line of the Party . . . slandering its leadership." Their conduct, frowned the Worker, was "characteristic of petty-bourgeois radicalism . . . and ultrarevolutionary phrase-mongering...
Vacationing in bourgeois Vermont, the literary culprits phrase-mongered: "We do not belong to any faction. . . . Both of us consider ourselves loyal members of the Communist Party...