Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...launching a career as a freelance writer and fulltime polemicist. He has been flailing away at his chosen targets-war, racial prejudice, big government-for something close to a quarter of a century. The secret of the art, he understands, is to avoid the complicating thought and the qualifying phrase; indeed, few writers have his knack for reducing problems of considerable complexity to aboriginal simplicity...
...perversion of history to take the famous words, "All men are created equal," in the Declaration of Independence and misinterpret them as a constitutional basis for declaring that all races are equal. All this phrase meant was that the colonial English gentleman was the equal of the English gentleman in the home country...
Jean Harlow, first sex goddess of the talkies, had a life that epitomized Thomas Hobbes's phrase for the life of the "natural" man: poor, nasty, brutish and short. Her mother was domineering and obsessed with sex; her stepfather was a sponging promoter of fake gold mines. Jean's second husband, Producer Paul Bern, shot himself two months after the wedding. She could not act, but her platinum hair, husky voice, and refusal to wear a brassiere were enough to gross millions at the box office for Howard Hughes and Louis B. Mayer. She died...
...even with Russell out of action, the bitter battle continued. Just a few hours before the vote, Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, in one of those some-of-my-best-friends-are-Negroes statements, recalled how he had been reared by a "Negro mammy." The phrase enraged Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore. "We don't just want to protect your mammy," he said. "We want to protect everybody's mammy. We want to fix it so that a Negro woman can go into a drugstore and get a glass of water when she is thirsty. That's what...
...They." In a post-California statement, Goldwater adapted a phrase that Rockefeller had been using about himself, claimed a victory for the "mainstream of Republican thinking." Certainly Barry's ideas flow somewhat to the right of that mainstream. Yet only after California were many leaders of moderate Republicanism, including the G.O.P.'s so-called "kingmakers," finally convinced that their party was likely to nominate for President a man whose views do not represent theirs...