Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interrogated him has admitted that at first Gold could not remember the name used in the password but thought it was something like "Benny" of "John." It was only when asked by the investigator if it might have been Julius that Gold suddenly recalled the exact phrase...
...Harvard came from ahead to lose to a team it had earlier annihilated, 82-31, was the home advantage. For instance, a team is hardly ever disqualified at home, only on the road. It's a copout to blame the Crimson's defeat on such a nebulous sports phrase as "home advantage," but I must confess I just can't think of any other reason...
...Presidency piece "Trying to Get Right with Lincoln" [Feb. 25], Hugh Sidey wrongly ascribes to Abraham Lincoln the phrase about "fighting it out on this line if it takes all summer." The phrase was Ulysses Grant's; the then ex-President made it in 1884 as he was struggling to get his memoirs into shape. At that stage...
...University's offer to hire a relocation consultant is a nice gesture. But no consultant is needed to clarify the meaning of the phrase "satisfactory to them," or the meaning of the tenants' statements that double relocation--first to temporary housing and later to the new housing--is unacceptable...
Fictive Avatars. The phrase fin-de-siècle has long stood for a filleted sort of consciousness: the epicine, misty, dandified transcendentalism and café demonolatry whose sturdier ancestors were men like Baudelaire and Poe. There is a certain truth to this, as evidenced by a work like Jean Delville's Orpheus. A member of the symbolist circle, Delville (1867-1953) was a devoted admirer of Joséphin Péladan, leader of the Rosicrucians in France. Yet it probably does not help us much now to know that the sickly greenish-blue radiance in which Orpheus...