Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Luxury campsites! The very phrase is a non sequitur. As any Boy Scout knows, a campsite is a clearing in the woods where the greatest luxury is a running brook. The basic urge of the true camper is to escape from chlorine, color TV and asphalt. The climb up Mount Horrid is an excellent baptism. In six-tenths of a mile, the trail rises sharply 600 ft. We were out of breath halfway up, and I thought my heart was about to pound out of my chest. At 2,800 ft., the trail levels off on a rocky perch called...
...they are an implicit answer to the Nixon Administration's assertion that its actions in the Watergate case have been motivated by "national security." It is an adroit defense, because the phrase is so vague as to defy easy definition and it appeals, after all, to valid national concerns...
...global detente, it is proper to ask whether the prevailing security operations are justified, and beyond that, the related question of whether the affairs of Government need be so elaborately shrouded in secrecy. In Justice Holmes' phrase, does a clear and present danger still exist? The answer is not easy to come by -partly because of the very secrecy that isolates the citizen from his Government...
When the grand jury prosecutors' desire to question the President became known last week, White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler replied that the President would not testify either in person or in writing, claiming that for him to do so would be "constitutionally inappropriate." The phrase was well-chosen, for the Constitution does not specifically address the question, though it does provide a limited measure of immunity for Congressmen. What it does do is lay out precisely, in the articles of impeachment, a process for interrogating a President, and many Constitutional authorities feel that this is meant to exclude...
...Ritual Phrase. Gaddafi's revolution has particular appeal to the nation's university students, who have worked hard to rid Libya's schools of alien influences. On Libya University's 8,500-student Tripoli campus, committees composed of professors, students and workers determine the curriculum and teaching methods. There I talked with Saddiqa Arriba, an attractive brunette wearing blue slacks and a knee-length tunic. As some students now do, she introduced many of her remarks with the ritual phrase Bismillah, ar-Rahman ar-Rahim (In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate...