Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although Franklin Roosevelt is usually given the credit and did indeed put it into practice, Hoover introduced the policy and the phrase during a pre-inaugural tour of Latin America...
...Christmas," he thought, "what jollity and merriment you bring to Harvard Square." He walked faster, trying to keep warm. "What camaraderie and playful amity suffuses the air as you approach," he thought again, trying to phrase it another way. But his own creative efforts rarely satisfied Fester J. Pupous '65, and Christmas was no time for a relaxation of standards. He went back to his single and finished All for Love...
When Conant appointed the committee that formulated the original program, he explained that he had used the phrase "General Education" because he knew that many scholars felt their discipline provided a liberal education if properly taught, but he thought that few would claim that their field provided a general education. That distinction is the crux of one of the major problems that confronts the Doty committee...
...installed in the palace in 1745 until the day she died there-after dutifully getting the King's permission to do so-in 1764. At first her intellectual mentor, Voltaire, had to correct her in a whisper at state dinners because her middle-class turn of phrase was so foreign to the phony formulas of the court. Her surname (Poisson, which means fish) was an endless source of cruel merriment...
...work. Old Joe pointed to the unplugged power cord. Teddy reluctantly inserted it-but as the screen began to flicker on, he yanked the cord out again. Then he told his father about Jack's death. Joe is a tough old bird, in the best sense of the phrase; he understood the news, took it without visibly flinching, and insisted on watching much of the final ceremonies for his son on television...