Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never dull. Nevertheless, something was missing or misplaced. It was as if the excitement had become confused with the music, so that the detachment by Mozart was absent. Rather than feeling invited to view a large movement from above, the listener was immersed in the music, running after phrase upon phrase. Perhaps sharper contrasts of dynamics or articulation would have made the Mozart as enjoyable as the Schubert...
...Senator could not say more than four or five consecutive words, for every phrase was interrupted by cries of "Victory!" and chants of "We want Gene...
Quiet Objection. How about U.S. law? Hull and Novogrod submit that although the Constitution gives Congress the sole right to declare war, the key word is "declare." The drafters rejected a proposed constitutional phrase giving Congress the right to "make" war. "Declare" was substituted, and, say the authors, "clearly the framers intended to give the President the power to meet a sudden attack without a congressional declaration of war." In addition, Congress has ratified the SEATO Treaty, which provides for aid to member nations threatened by external forces, and it has passed the Tonkin Resolution, which even Senator William Fulbright...
Illinois' Ninth District embraces Chicago's Gold Coast as well as the city's crowded West Side tenements. In both neighborhoods, Representative Sidney Yates encountered uneasiness with the war. "But, to use a hackneyed phrase," Yates declared, "they don't want peace without honor...
More and more, that phrase has come to mean ads with a sense of entertainment and humor. One of Benton & Bowles's most successful TV ads, for example, features the bull-necked Korean who played the karate expert Odd Job in Goldfinger. Seized with a coughing fit, he nearly chops down his house with involuntary hand swipes before a swig of Vick's Formula 44 cough medicine calms him down. Even Ted Bates & Co., perennial champion of the hard sell, is going soft. It has dropped the sledgehammer animations it long used to illustrate (and often give) headache...