Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blazing up with his favorite expletive ("By the Gods"), he cracked down with an order prohibiting "public displays of affection". Impatiently sidestepping the question of fraternization, he dusted off the Army's catch-all phrase: "prejudicial to good order and military discipline...
...only community of which they could be full-fledged members. The Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Jewish problems, which arrived in Cairo last week, had found that 600,000 out of 750,000 Jews in European D.P. camps were, in Judge Simon H. Rifkind's phrase, "unrepentant Zionists," despite the struggle and the hardship awaiting them in Palestine...
Rattling Tongue. But his principal asset is his proficiency at something called scat-a form of singing in which the performer, instead of mouthing words, gushes forth an unintelligible gibberish most closely resembling a spluttering outboard motor. His radio signature is a scat phrase which, written down, looks something like this...
...that by an adolescent girl who worshiped him as if he were King. She develops David's crookedly loyal captain Joab into a conscienceless foil for her almost equally sinful but conscience-torn hero; but she explains David's lifelong forbearance towards Joab only by the phrase, "a nameless fear." Her examinations of religious and mystical experience are sometimes emotionally convincing, but so loosely generalized that the reader nods at, without believing or suffering, David's intuitions of "other Jahvehs"-one of love, for example, or one who is blind and heartless...
...roaring collective-bargaining days, Labor Leader Ernie Bevin shouted and pounded the table-but he did not stop bargaining. He "gave it to 'em for fair" (a favorite Bevin phrase), and the Russians were not happy. But they were still in UNO, and UNO was still in one piece. The piece was much more of a piece than it had been before...