Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...89th was the first Congress to address itself-in its legislative thrust as well as its membership-to the U.S. as a nation of city dwellers. Largely concerned with "the real dynamics of urban life," in President Johnson's phrase, it marched against the problems of slum housing, overcrowded streets, underemployed minorities, inadequate schools, polluted air and water, rising crime, complicated tax structures and shrinking recreational facilities. And it produced its prodigious array of social and economic legislation in spite of the tension and upheaval caused by a costly war. Indeed, the 89th went further than any other...
...predicted, the Russians showed their guests the launch of a radio-and-TV-relay satellite named Molniya (Lightning). About the only clue from the Moscow summit was a negative one: in the list of slogans promulgated last week for the 49th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, a key phrase was missing. For the first time since 1918, the Soviets failed to say, "Workers of the world, unite...
Hitchcock's phrase "photographs of people talking" should be hammered into the popular vocabulary. It defines an astoundingly large proportion of the mediocrity that passes for cinema, and it suggests such calumny as La Fuga deserves: "photographs of people thinking...
...When, in a burst of patriotic pontificating common to assemblies the world over, a draft resolution supporting the Vietnamese army at home and abroad was proposed, Mme. Xa raised her delicate eyebrows. '"Abroad?" she asked. "We are not fighting abroad. We have all we can do here." The phrase was struck...
Every war needs a slogan--to rally the masses and pluck at their purse `strings. Something easy and original like "Remember the Alamo," "Remember the Maine," and "Remember Pearl Harbor!" But so far, in the absence of any singularly memorable event in the Vietnamese war, the phrase epitomizing the spirit of the American fighting man has gone unspoken...