Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very phrase used to have a pejorative connotation, a suggestion of decline. But a surprising number of people were willing to admit that they belong in the category, and to talk frankly about their lives and those of their friends. We defined middle age as ranging from 40 to 60. Although she barely qualifies, Actress Lauren Bacall, 41, struck the editors as a fitting (and certainly comely) personification of the Command Generation. Widowed, remarried, mother of three, heroine of several comebacks, she has a tested quality of spirit; she is game...
...Year." An "out-damn-standing pilot," in Bellinger's phrase, Adams was one of only six flyers chosen for the Oriskany's second tour in Vietnamese waters after its winter State side leave. On July 12, three days after the Oriskany reached its Yankee Station strikepoint, Adams was shot down again, this time 23 miles from Hanoi...
Judge Irving R. Kaufman traced the euphemism to the Public Health Service, which devised it as an admittedly "vague and indefinite" rubric covering Congress' intent to bar "homosexuals and other sex perverts." However medically imprecise, said Kaufman, the phrase became "a legal term of art" that clearly barred Boutilier as "a homosexual long before leaving Canada," and authorized his deportation even if he had lived "a life of impeccable morality" in the U.S. Ruled Kaufman: "It is not our function to sit in judgment on Congress' wisdom in enacting the law." In dissent, Judge Leonard P. Moore called...
Does anyone ever get a fair trial in court? Though U.S. trials are aimed at discovering the truth and dispensing justice, the parties to the trials are really seeking triumph and justification. The very phrase "adversary system" denotes a bitter duel rather than a disinterested inquiry. Worse, the duelers tend to indulge in trickery, and fight with "make-believe" evidence that often bears scant relation to the facts at issue...
...slowly, while older persons have less facility for perception of speed and depth. Interpretive judgments may vary with each individual's "age, race, nationality, sex, profession, religion-all his lifetime experience." Most people hear only what they want to hear. To an insecure professor, for example, the overheard phrase "ten-year plan" may well sound like "tenure plan...