Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mixed with the cheers for De Gaulle were a few rumbles of discontent. Two days before the general's inauguration, 1,000 Paris gas and electricity workers demonstrated against his austerity budget. Algeria's right-wing representatives in the National Assembly were angered by a phrase in De Gaulle's inaugural speech showing that he does not consider Algeria a part of Metropolitan France. French colonists in Algeria were even more disturbed by the prospect that De Gaulle, as President, intends to pardon five Algerian rebel captives, kidnaped by French agents on a 1956 flight to Tunis...
Three magazines on the Square stands indicate that the phrase-makers and word-turners have had a busy academic term. The magazines are Audience, The Editor and Identity, and all contain the work of men who subscribe to the ideals and conventions of the University...
When De Gaulle emerged from the somnolent village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises last May, France was sliding hopelessly into civil war. "The carrots are cooked, the carrots are cooked," blared Radio Algiers, repeating with monotonous insistence the code phrase which signified that the rebellious generals of Algeria were ready to land their paratroops in Metropolitan France. In Paris white-faced ministers of the Fourth Republic nervously deployed a small army of steel-helmeted cops, not sure of their loyalty, and Interior Minister Jules Moch ordered coils of barbed wire laid out on 15 of the 18 airfields surrounding Paris...
...what, all his life, he had been looking for. But when, in that letter, he went on to spell his answer out in words, it was not an answer made of words: it was an answer made of life: 'When I try to put it all into a phrase I say, "Man can embody truth but he cannot know...
...party tells us ... We will never disappoint the party in its earnest hopes and will strive to accelerate the building of socialism and to realize mankind's noblest ideal-Communism-in our generation and by our own hands." To millions of hand-blistered Chinese students, the last phrase must ring with ironic accuracy. For much of the impetus in China's "Year of the Leap" (TIME, Dec. 1) has come from daily sessions of mind and muscle-numbing physical labor by the nation's students, who work before and after classes and often during class hours...