Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Borrowing the phrase from Celia in As You Like It: "Well said: that was laid on with a trowel...
Ever since they dropped words like "Mr." from their headlines, U.S. news papers have made their own language as they went along. Their independence has been limited only by type, column widths, and their own often curious taste. Even Franklin Roosevelt, an old phrase coiner, got nowhere with his "War for Survival." The press* made it World War II, which stuck...
...closing, may I add the Navy's traditional phrase of approval, a hearty "Well done!" Sincerely yours, C. H. J. KEPPLER, Captain, U. S. Navy...
...dark, youngish (38) ambassador spoke in a monotone, looking neither to right nor left, as though talking into space or lecturing, as he used to before a Russian class in economics. He talked in Russian; at previous conferences he used English. He repeated himself; twelve times he used the phrase "postpone consideration of the question until the loth of April." He evaded rather than answered questions...
Schwieger marked every page of everyone's music, noted the fingering and position for the stringed instruments, marked the upbows and downbows, indicated whether he wanted a phrase played at the tip of the bow or at the lower part. He marked every crescendo and diminuendo for the brasses. Then he sent his musicians home to practice their individual parts. Later each section of the orchestra rehearsed together, while Schwieger went from one room to another, coaching first the violins, then the woodwinds. Pay didn't start until the orchestra came together for full rehearsal...