Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took a less speedy, but more enterprising runner to discover that Gate 12 was closed and that a third of the race had passed it by. With a motion both swift and efficient, this hero swung open Gate 12, giving those behind him a "second wind," to coin a phrase...
...same shortage of sponsors for unrehearsed humor also killed the best new comedy show in years. The show: Keep Talking, a zany competition between teams of comic talkers trying to spin out a screwball tale while slipping in a screwball secret phrase that the opposition must spot. Literate and consistently funny, the show was carried by CBS all summer and into the fall without attracting a sponsor. Last week CBS decided that while it still liked Keep Talking, it could not afford to keep paying...
...officers, however, are products of an affluent society, to coin a phrase, and patrol their territory in cruisers, both land and water variety. Rarely are they concerned with border skirmishes...
...accompanied by assassination. But what happened last week in Bangkok was not a coup d'état, nor even a coup de main, coup de Jarnac, coup de grâce, coup de maitre, coup de pied or a coup d'oeil. Searching for the trenchant Gallic phrase to describe Strongman Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat's apparent coup against himself, the best that observers could manage was coup de repos, i.e., a move that leaves the main features of a situation unchanged but also puts opponents at a disadvantage...
Undoubtedly, however, the economy-minded and undiscriminating would soak up these strange brands with the appalling result already described. Thus the Coop is to be roundly congratulated for keeping the power to indulge where it rightfully belongs--in the hands, to use Hamilton's phrase, of the rich and well-born. Cheers...