Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guard who stood out above the field this season was Endicott Peabody of Harvard who might be described in Kipling's "Fuzzy-wuzzy" phrase as an "inja-rubber idiot on the spree" or a big, fast-moving beggar who broke practically all the hostile squares...
...distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art; I altered the minds of men and the colors of things; there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder . . . I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram...
...disposal of waste is a burden . . . especially when he learns to include himself, living and dead, in the list of waste products." Thus does Author Janet Frame begin a strange book about three wasted lives in a dim world that she calls "the edge of the alphabet." The phrase has a properly demented ring, and because Novelist Frame, in both fact and fiction, has spent some time in asylums, the reader at first thinks he is once more on the now depressingly familiar fictional grounds of a mental institution...
...introspection. Ted strides through a factory slapping backs with the natural political zest, though not the warmth, of Nelson Rockefeller. Ted enjoys campaigning. Last May he told delegates to the State Convention, "A candidate can't expect support unless he asks for it, and I'm here asking." This phrase is still repeated by the candidate dozens of times a day all through the State. It is the not ridiculous to suggest that Ted could win the election with the name Edward Moore. It is the nomination that Edward Moore never could have gotten...
...married women over 30. Said an elderly man, withdrawing from a young woman's embrace: "I wish she wouldn't kiss me. It makes me feel so old." In Los Angeles, the cocktail kiss is as common as divorce, is most usually accompanied by the unbroken phrase: "Darlingwonder-fultoseeyouhowareyoucouldn'tbebetter-where'sthebar?'' And in Dallas, says one constant partygoer. "Since it all has to start somewhere, you may kiss anyone you have been introduced to, but you shouldn't look as if you would like to do it more than once...