Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control, Ayub abruptly departed, turning over to the army the world's fifth most populous nation. His voice breaking with emotion, Ayub took to Radio Pakistan "for the last time" to explain why Pakistan had once again fallen under military rule. "I cannot," he declared in a phrase with Churchillian echoes, "preside over the destruction of my country...
...Bahamas (one of four won by the Journal in the past eight years), an editor sent Penn a note. It was not to congratulate him but to remind him to attend the annual meeting of a minor movie company. A colleague intercepted the note en route and appended the phrase, "Sic transit gloria mundi." But Penn accepts the dual role. "I may have to move from a big exciting story to an inconsequential one," he says, "but I do it. It's all part of the working...
...unknown girl singer, name of Roslyn Kind. Yawns all around. But then the voice comes on, strong and hard-edged, like all the Barbra Streisands in the world rolled up in one. Cynics straighten up in their chairs; jaded old ears listen for the flawed cadence, the flattened phrase that never comes. Another listen, then unanimity: Sign her up. Only then does the guy who brought the tapes spring his surprise...
...essence, Kolář glorifies the printed phrase while simultaneously reducing it to mosaics of decorative rubble. A basrelief of a butterfly is emblazoned with syllables from a 17th century Latin text on the natural sciences, together with scraps of the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa. A bust of Queen Nefertiti is studded with bits of picture postcards, advertising folders, magazine illustrations and postage stamps...
...young Sicilian immigrant and hard-working family man in New York's Little Italy, Don Vito discovered (somewhat to his own surprise) he was "a man of force." The phrase is recurrent and a key to understanding the qualities that distinguish a true captain of business and industry. Don Vito is the sort of man who would undoubtedly grump at such academic non sequiturs as "political science," since the years have taught him there is no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate one's faults...