Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What a remarkable contrast to your Feb. 5 cover story heralding the new Joint Chiefs of Staff with the phrase, "Thinkers and managers replace the heroes"! You have rediscovered the heroic among the managers of modern warfare: gladiators do make team...
...members of the Choir speak Russian, and they sing from transliterations. Nevertheless, their diction was excellent. Even in the hymn "Lord, Have Mercy," in which an extremely difficult phrase is repeated rapidly and loudly, their pronounciation was flawless...
...young detective didn't hear the last remark, for he was already out the door. He knew he was right now. Tht pouch of tobacco was important. Now he had to find the strange little foreigner with the only clue he had: a cryptic phrase--"the Bronze Rhinoceros...
...somewhere in the staging the good lines, the nice phrases, and the archy's-eye point-of-view are lost. In book form, all archy's prose is in lower case (the cockroach typed out his copy by jumping onto the keys, but was not heavy enough to depress the shift lock). Unbroken by capital letters and sparsely punctuated, it reads like a kind of slow, dead-pan monotone and provides the perfect backdrop for the good phrase, the turned cliche, the well-dropped contradiction...
...best way to describe how the baseball season opened is to coin a phrase about the way the ball bounces. There were some pretty crazy hops...