Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joyous Entrance. To the tidy-minded who demand tables of organization and clearly drawn lines of authority, cooperative unity sounded suspiciously like a fancy phrase for doing nothing. But since 1953, European railways have pooled freight cars as U.S. railroads do, now have some 200,000 cars marked EUROP roaming one another's tracks. Another joint project soon to be established is Eurocontrol-an integrated system of air-navigational control...
Sell Service. But the "banker's banker" phrase did not really do Jack Lewis justice. He also had one of those sharp, searching minds that made him a rugged competitor in a business that only in the last decade or so has started to hustle. "We have nothing to sell except service," said Lewis. He was one of the first to install business machines to help tellers figure accounts rapidly, in 1956 ordered an all-electronic bookkeeping system. And when most banks limited the number of checks a depositor could issue without charge in any one month, Lewis...
...Berliners' own name for themselves is "die Insulaner"-the islanders. Implicit in the phrase is an awareness of living in a world that for all practical purposes has an area of only 186 square miles. (The unpredictability of the East German police, which discourages most West Berliners from venturing into "the Zone," bears particularly hard on warm summer weekends when the road to the city's one big public resort, the suburban lake of Wannsee, is jammed with virtually every car in Berlin...
...imams heard Sociologist Ali Abdel Wahad tell them that suppression of women in the Arab world is a distortion of the Koran's teaching. They heard Mohamed Madani, dean of the Islamic Law Faculty, declare that "not a single phrase in the Koran is against science." To this tradition-bound university, such lectures are unprecedented. Al-Azhar, in many ways the spiritual center of the Mohammedan world, is in the midst of the most drastic renaissance in its long history...
...phrase "broadly liberal" comes from the college catalogue, which itself defines the emphasis: "limitation of the amount of specialization safeguards the broadly liberal purpose of the four-year undergraduate curriculum." This is a double-edged ideal; for, despite the increasing numbers of its graduates who go on to take higher degrees, Wellesley itself gently discourages the academic. The Wellesley girl may not be narrow; but on the other hand there is the danger which Malcolm Cowley pointed out in the Harvard of 1915--that "culture was something to be acquired, like a veneer...