Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trudging single file through the forest on the little path" to the leper colony, singing Christmas carols. There was something more immediate about his surgery when the sun set in the middle of an operation and the sutures had to be made by flashlight. Throughout his letters, the phrase persisted: "But so life goes." For the family, the life was a far remove from Redondo Beach barbecues. The diet was bananas, papayas and pineapples; goats, chickens and an occasional antelope. Though missionaries from the Evangelical Covenant network occasionally visited back and forth, amusement was usually family style: games of Scrabble...
...knows just how the myth got started, but it has persisted for 30 years. Any sports figure who gets on the cover of TIME, goes the mythology, is doomed to defeat-in a phrase, has had it. TIME Subscriber Ara Parseghian saw that jinx note in the sports column while Correspondent Marsh Clark was interviewing him for this week's cover. He smiled rather bravely and allowed that he wasn't worried. How ever, while there is no computerized or even uncomputerized evidence to support the myth, it can be said that someone almost always loses in sports...
...1950s, the city's businessmen recognized that Philadelphia was a city in a state of collapse, to use Bacon's phrase. Industries were beginning to move out, sales in the center city were declining, and stores were moving to the suburbs, or talking about...
...enrolled 400 members since it got started five months ago. The MCGS has sent delegations to every local public demonstration in the 1964 campaign. At the downtown rally greeting the President, Portlist led an excited band of Citizens carrying placards that read, "Into the Future with Lyndon"--a phrase that could serve as a motto for the MCGS...
...with 58.1% of the popular vote (still the third highest in history), over Democrat Al Smith. When he took office, he had well earned his position as the most respected man in America. Now, after having been overwhelmed for reelection, he was perhaps the most reviled; the phrase "Hoover's Depression" was current, and the nation's landscape was defaced by those tarpaper-shack communities known as "Hoovervilles...