Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, it is possible that his words may need editing before being printed. Which of us has never used an ungrammatical word or phrase, or written an awkward sentence? CATHERINE RONDINELLI Milwaukee...
Your story on the British colony of Aden [Oct. 5] described Abdullah Asnag, secretary of the Aden Trades Union Congress, as "Red-lining," a shorthand phrase which I take to mean that Mr. Asnag is a Communist or a fellow traveler or a follower of the Communist Party line...
...public debate later, the antiMarket forces, led by two former Health Ministers. Robert Turton and Sir Derek Walker-Smith, forcefully invoked the catch phrase of "Queen, country and Commonwealth.'' But the old arguments failed to rouse a cold audience. When an anti-Marketeer said that Britain's young people were against going into the Market. cries of ''Rubbish'' and "Nonsense" filled the hall...
...President is evidently alarmed by the success of the cold war of legislative attrition waged by this large group of willful men, and this is all to the good. He seems to be emerging from his delusion that "technique can be substituted for policy," in Hans Morgenthau's phrase. Concern about the substantive tragedy of his legislative failures has replaced simple pique at losing the game...
...charade in which his guests represent the seven deadly sins. Kenneth Widmerpool, whom Pow'ell addicts have already enshrined as one of the great ones in the long waxwork gallery of English comics, appears as an ambitious officer with a rich, newly acquired military vocabulary. In his own phrase he is "up to his arse in bumph" (i.e., a busy desk officer). An unconscious clown as an Etonian, an obtuse and thundering bore as a successful businessman, a disastrous figure of Freudian fun as a lover, Widmerpool, as Powell says in a hundred ways, is the sort...