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Word: phrased (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some people say that when Nixon and Agnew speak of law and order they are using code words for racism. I would like to suggest a phrase that is clear and unambiguous: "Equal Justice Under Law," These immortal words are chiseled in marble on the Supreme Court. But I forgot; Nixon doesn't like the Supreme Court and what it stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 11, 1968 | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...line behind Marcel Marceau, Bing Crosby, Pat Boone, Dick Gregory and Jack Benny. And they will do anything once they get before a camera. Marceau in future programs will perform pantomime bits, but most of the other guests will utter senseless non sequiturs, or the reigning catch phrase of the moment, such as "irky perky!" and "Sock it to me!" Sammy Davis Jr., who last season turned his here-come-de-Judge antics into a rollicking miniballet, now reports that when he strolls through a Negro neighborhood, all the kids trail after him squealing the phrase in chorus. It would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verrry Interesting . . . But Wild | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...phrase first used by a Negro vaudeville veteran, Dewey ("Pigmeat") Markham, to introduce a series of blackouts (Judge: "Have you ever been up before me?" Defendant: "I don't know-what time do you get up?"). Pig-meat himself is now on Laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verrry Interesting . . . But Wild | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...anyone who pays tuition for a college student to claim a credit on his income tax. But the maximum allowance of $325 would not help any student's family very much, and poorer families with a small tax payment would receive almost no benefit. "Tax credit" is a difficult phrase to resist, though, and only sustained opposition from the Johnson Administration killed it in the House last year...

Author: By Jack D. Burke, | Title: Students Under Fire | 10/10/1968 | See Source »

Pres. Pusey was quoted in your newspaper as having said "There is a feeling somehow that the phrase 'citizens of Cambridge' doesn't include the people who live and work at Harvard" and further that "academic people shouldn't be ignored." As a permanent resident of the City of Cambridge I would like to speak to President Pusey's statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . .AND CAMBRIDGE | 10/5/1968 | See Source »

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