Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Sunday, however, we "found ourselves in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude," to use Winston Churchill's phrase. The Yankees lost the World Series. In four straight...
Knock-on--this phrase is used to describe any situation in which the ball is passed forward and which is almost always illegal, meriting a penalty...
Atkins, in the final address of the day, declared, "The School Committee is unable to decipher a Latin phrase. So we are here today to tell them that there is segregation, in fact, in Boston today...
When Gen. Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced last week that the Joint Chiefs do not oppose ratifications, a favorable vote was assured. Opponents still hope to coax a disapproving phrase or two out of some testifying officer, but many senators who were withholding any committment until the military had expressed its assent are now free to speak, and are beginning to do so. These announcements will elevate further the stature of military advice and consent...
Incidentally, the first step is to practice saying over and over again the pat phrase "Harvard man" in place of the self-defeating phrase "Harvard...