Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author of the Administration's infelicitous phrase "benign neglect" ought to know when to leave well enough alone, and that is exactly what U.S. Ambassador to India Daniel P. Moynihan counseled from New Delhi not long ago in a wry cable to the State Department. The Agency for International Development had made a promise to the Indian government in April that an AID apartment-dining complex would be turned over to India. Two weeks ago Moynihan made good on the promise. Later the same day the State Department cabled him to hold up the gift, hoping to retain...
...both Wilson and Ehrlichman of a provision in the 1968 Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, which stated that nothing in the act "shall limit the constitutional power of the President to take such measures as he deems necessary to protect the nation against" national security threats. But that phrase, as Wilson conceded, did not confer any fresh power on the President. Indeed the Administration had once argued that the phrase justified tapping the telephones of domestic security risks without a warrant, only to lose in the Supreme Court by a resounding 8-0 tally in the famous Plamondon case...
...from precisely such uncomfortable facts that mouthings about moral schizophrenia shield their speakers. The phrase "tragic war in Vietnam," has become a near proverb among Liberals. But "tragic" has no definite meaning; it doesn't refer to Aristotle's rules of drama, or Elizabethan concepts of the rise and fall of statesmen, or anything like that. Insofar as it means anything at all, it means "sad." Accordingly, the phrase is given out in subdued undertones, as though a dead man with a brokenhearted widow were weeping in the next room. It is used as if in reference to an accident...
...year for radical student revolt, 1969 was the heyday for militant Feminism. Mention "'69" to anyone who participated and watch the lines in her face tighten with nostalgia. She too looks as if the phrase were but an echo, or a ghost of an activism that passed away somewhere, she's not sure where...
When Richard Nixon first brandished the phrase "Black Capitalism" during the 1968 campaign, it captured the imaginations of blacks and whites alike...