Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vision of the press-as-cannon became press-as-popgun when "the national interest" was involved. Invocation of the phrase could limit his criticism of the government's Vietnam policy. And he knew of the U-2 flights a year before one of the planes was shot down, but his view of "the national interest" prevented him from printing what he knew...
...foreign policy message to Congress last May, for example, the President declared that deterrence based on the ability to kill tens of millions of Soviet citizens was "inconsistent with American values." He also said that he wanted a nuclear strategy that would have "greater flexibility," a phrase that went unexplained?and virtually unnoticed by the public?until last summer. At that time, Schlesinger disclosed that the U.S. missile force was being retriggered to give the U.S. a "counterforce" capability; i.e., the means to strike?if desired?only at Soviet military forces and installations rather than let loose a wholesale volley...
...long period in his first Administration, President Nixon's economic policies were summed up in a phrase popularized by Treasury Secretary George Shultz: "Steady as she goes." The words implied a commitment to going along with old policies and resisting sharp or contentious change. There are no better words than those to describe the fiscal 1975 budget that Nixon sent to Congress this week...
...vague and frightening aspects of the impeachment process. The impeachment clause of the U.S. Constitution is too ambiguous to be easily employed. It is clear enough that a President can be impeached for treason or bribery, but what is to be made of "other high Crimes and Misdemeanors"? The phrase was a compromise arrived at by the founding fathers after considerable debate, but it was only dimly understood then-or since. Not long after the phrase was incorporated into the U.S. Constitution, the British, who invented it to encompass both criminal acts and behavior that tended to undermine a government...
What gives such a sense of the master about Nabokov is perhaps the feeling of common characters, common turns of phrase, common interests running through his long shelf of books. His novels span the gap between contemporary Switzerland and Russia before the Revolution. In between lie post-war America and Berlin between the wars, tea on the edge of Bloomsbury and dinner with Joyce in Paris. There are fantastic countries, like "Ultima Thule" published last spring in a A Russian Beauty and Other Stories...