Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phrase of John Donne's, also used as a title by John (Inside Russia Today) Gunther for the 1949 account of the illness and death of his 17-year-old son from cancer...
...Chairman-Mao Tse-tung is at once China's emperor, pope and father image. Like Stalin in his heyday, Mao is quoted as the ultimate authority on ideology, military science, steel production, poetry, art, and the uses of fertilizer. Every proclaimed achievement begins with the phrase "Thanks to Chairman Mao." His public appearances arouse excitement bordering on hysteria, evoke near tearful tributes to his "affectionate and kindly gaze.'' Nor are foreigners immune to his spell: Brazilian Sculptor Maria Martins recalls him as "a glowing image-a genius in terms of 20th century politics and a sage...
...sold, people queued up in Tokyo department stores to buy tickets enabling them to get hoops later. In Johannesburg only the white kids can afford the 65? hoops, but charitable organizations have begun handing out hoops to poor Negro children. And in Geneva, the city of Calvin, the familiar phrase to express bewildered surprise has now become "Hula...
...writing courses to get a license after taking three education courses at Teachers College, Columbia University. At Columbia, wrote Allen, he was told that the way to deal with problem students was to "find meaningful situations in which your pupils can express their felt needs." He adds: "This phrase seemed funny to me then, but it seems tragic...
...streeling" from bar to bar, going to a funeral or engaging in a national Fuss. Author Tracy has kicked up her own share of Fusses since she made Ireland her literary beat. She is doubtless viewed with mistrust by the large school of Irish writers who, in her phrase, "feel that it is a splendid thing to be a writer and that little or nothing is added to it by writing." She has been "affectionately described as a bitch" by at least one correspondent who had suffered an ill-defined grievance in one of her articles. Judging from past form...