Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remember (Dr. Bandura relates) reading a story reported by Professor Mowrer about a lonesome farmer who decided to get a parrot for company. After acquiring the bird, the farmer spent many long evenings teaching the parrot the phrase, "Say Uncle." Despite the devoted tutorial atteniton, the parrot proved totally unresponsive and finally, the frustrated farmer got a stick and struck the parrot on the head after each refusal to produce the desired phrase...
Originally a means of communication between kitchen and customer, the menu has become marinated, garnished, overstuffed, embosomed with verbiage and necklaced with adjectives. It is now characterized, to borrow a phrase from the Forum of the Twelve Caesars in New York, by "a Rising Crown of Pate and Triumphal Laurel Wreath." In other words, it is meaningless...
...unfortunate phrase "finger-lickin' good," once confined to chicken in the South, now appears in Minneapolis, Chicago, San Francisco, Buffalo, El Paso. All too often, sea food is now headlined: "Denizens of the Deep." Vegetables come from "Field and Forest...
...discussion by spectators was intended to be a precedent, which it explicitly was not, although many members of SFAC would like future meetings to include discussion by members of the Harvard community of all points of view. Furthermore, it summarized an hour and a half of debate in the phrase "heated discussion," devoting the rest of the article to a painfully short summary of the various positions expressed, and to five minutes of the meeting that contained one argument against the resolution, and the vote...
...bureaucratic mind strained, digging, not for an answer, but for the phrase from the statutes learned by rote for situations like this. "Well, if you wanted an abatement, you had to come in before June...