Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the crest of the crisis is over, "leftist phrase-mongers" are striving slanderously to present the case as if the Soviet Union capitulated. The authors of the term "second Munich" are obviously at odds with elementary history and don't know what they are talking about...
...week the bishop was in trouble again. In a New Year's Eve sermon, Roseveare delivered a carefully worded attack on "idolatry." He named no names, did not so much as mention Ghana, but Nkrumah's terrible-tempered press was quick to take offense. Adding a new phrase to the already rich vocabulary of invective, the Accra Evening News branded the bishop as a "vicious insinuationist," warned that unless he stops his "utter misuse of the pulpit, we shall have no alternative than to accept the gauntlet"-that is, to throw him out again...
More Is More. Early in this century, the French architect Auguste Perret declared, "Decoration always hides an error in construction"; later, the great Mies van der Rohe summed up the approach to purity and discipline in the phrase "Less is more." These tenets have to a large degree held sway ever since. But to Yamasaki, this architecture lacks "delight, serenity and surprise," and if he must have decoration to achieve these things, he will have it. Until the Seattle Pavilion opened, the unserene battle over architectural philosophy that Yamasaki stirred up was kept mostly within the profession, but the public...
Transportation experts have a mouthful of a phrase to describe the area between Washington and Boston. It is the "Northeastern Megalopolitan Corridor," and it implies just what "megalo" means in medicine: an abnormal enlargement. Not too many years hence, the metropolitan centers of Washington. Baltimore. Philadelphia. New York and Boston will have crept so near each other that they will be one huge, headachy city. These urban areas already comprise better than 20% of the nation's population, account for almost 30% of U.S. manufacturing, 20% of its retail trade and 27% of the federal income tax take...
...issues, Young is also a blunt opponent of Government bureaucracy. Investigating expenditures of the Health, Education and Welfare Department, he once hooted at HEW grants for research projects on the social role of wild ungulata ($8,205), Indian caste cohesiveness and personality development ($7,820), the ontogeny of English phrase structure ($2,100), and blood groups genetics of Southampton Island Eskimos...