Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sinologists urged that the U.S. try to normalize relations with China, however unrewarding that might be. They proposed that Washington recognize the Peking regime, support its admission to the U.N. (provided Nationalist China is not ousted) and in general follow a policy of "containment without isolation"-a phrase approvingly picked up by Humphrey on Meet the Press...
...Macedonians and Romans, won fame for their century-and-a-half stand against Rome in a phrase that has come down through the ages: "Numquid de Dacis audisti?" (What have you heard of the Daci...
...Young gauge his audience so well. In the process of discounting China's military threat, he said the Chinese navy consisted of "nothing except thousands of junks." The type who laughs compulsively whenever he hears the word "junk" laughed, and Young--apparently encouraged--went on to coin a new phrase--"junks full of Chinks." It was an awkward moment all around. Some hissed; most were pointedly silent and the Ohio Senator had no easy time of it recovering...
...build." He sees the committee programs as a necessary first step before Young Dems puts forward any program on a national level. "The first stage has got to be production here, because this is where we're all living for four years--anything else is just a hollow phrase unless you can say this is what we're doing here, where...
...short, to define a phrase which expresses the workings of an idea in the hands of hundreds or perhaps thousands of people is to ignore one of its most salient features -- mysterious happenings -- and commit it to an orthodox fate...