Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This description joined the list of unflattering epithets -among them "chronic liar," "journalistic polecat" and s.o.b.-that have already been hurled at Pearson without puncturing his hide. But the News-Miner's phrase hit him smack in the reputation-or so the columnist claimed in a $176,000 libel suit. In his own defense, Pearson produced almost half a dozen character witnesses, among them the gentleman farmer whose 499 acres are near the Pearson property in Maryland: US Senator Wayne Morse...
While I am entirely in sympathy with the stand taken by the North Harvard Community. I cannot suppress a sneaking curiosity as to how many of the students in that area have, unthinkingly, used the high sounding phrase "Property Rights Or Human Rights?" at some time in the past. The Urban Renewal problem dramatically domonstrates that, in our society, the right to the unhindered use and possession of property is among the most important of human rights. David Friedman...
...late, British officials scurried across the Continent to plead their government's case-resembling, in former Tory Party Leader Iain Macleod's withering phrase, "doves sent out from the Ark to tell people that Noah's sorry it's raining." Even so, hardheaded foreign bankers might have waited for Noah to reach dry land if there had been any real sign that the government was coming to grips with Britain's basic economic ills. On the contrary, Wilson clearly assigned priority to expanded welfare statism that Britain can patently ill afford. He also insisted...
Topping the list of shopworn journa-ese was the verb "hail," a pet of head-ine writers (MAYOR HAILS HOMETOWN HERO) as well as reporters ("New Yorkers hailed their first rain in six weeks"). Univac awarded second place to the phrase "violence flared," third place to "flatly denied." The rest of the runners-up: "racially troubled," "voters marched to the polls," "jampacked," "usually reliable sources," "backlash," "kickoff" (as applied to anything but a football game), "limped into port," "gutted by fire,-" "death and destruction," "riot-torn," "strife-torn," "tinder-dry woodlands," "in the wake of," "no immediate comment," "guarded optimism...
...ensuing dark age arose a new archaic beginning of art, which developed through several centuries to reach the purity of form and piety of humanistic vision usually conjured up by the phrase "Greek art." This ancient double root of the Greek experience is the subject of Author Demargne's engrossing study and its opulent page after page of illustration...