Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME is to be commended for setting the record straight as to the meaning of "the right to bear arms." That phrase has been used out of context by the gun lobby in its fight against a reasonable firearms law to suggest that every man, woman and child has a right to be armed to the teeth. The Founding Fathers never sought to inject such a remarkable concept into the Second Amendment. The Kennedy assassination, the attack on James Meredith, the University of Texas rampage must arouse Congress to enact laws aimed at keeping firearms out of the hands...
...matter of course that the 'lesser breeds' are 'natives,' and a mental picture is called up of some pukka sahib in a pith helmet kicking a coolie. In its context the sense of the line is almost the exact opposite of this. The phrase 'lesser breeds' refers almost certainly to the Germans, and especially the pan-German writers, who are 'without the Law' in the sense of being lawless, not in the sense of being powerless. The whole poem is a denunciation of power politics...
...works, the complex arrangement that started last week between the Miami Herald and the Miami News may well furnish newsmen with a new phrase-"Miami merger," meaning one that aims to prevent an actual merger...
Reasoning that thousands of frustrated tourists must have the same difficulty, he had an ingenious notion: Why not publish a foreign-language phrase book composed entirely of rebukes and insults? The result is the Wolfe Publishing Co.'s Insult Dictionary, subtitled, "How to Be Abusive in Five Languages," which has already sold some 50,000 copies across the Atlantic, promises to sell thousands more in its forthcoming U.S. edition. With 127 pages of snappish asperities in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, the Insult Dictionary provides useful tips for conversations with surly cab drivers, arrogant bank tellers, clumsy hairdressers...
...preacher to go dry fly-fishing in the streams of his native Prince Edward Island. Last week, at 73, Bonnell unexpectedly turned no into yes and accepted the presidency of Manhattan's little interdenominational New York Theological Seminary (enrollment: 180). For the occasion, he produced another appropriate phrase: "When one sees a great work to be done and gets into it, that's the greatest happiness...