Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...timing of the leadership reshuffle was masterly. Scheduled to make historic visits to West Germany in May and to the U.S. in June, Brezhnev will now take off with the fullest possible domestic backing for his pursuit of detente. The two Politburo members dismissed (the official phrase was "relieved of duty")-Pyotr Shelest and Gennady Voronov-have been notable opponents of his diplomatic initiatives, as well as of some of his domestic efforts. Among the four men promoted -Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Defense Minister Andrei Grechko, KGB (secret police) Chief Yuri Andropov and Leningrad Party Secretary Grigory Romanov-at least...
WITH that call for a renewal and redefinition of the Atlantic partnership, Henry Kissinger last week finally inaugurated the Nixon Administration's belated "Year of Europe." Like that celebrated phrase, the address that the President's foreign policy adviser delivered at the annual Associated Press luncheon in Manhattan was vague on content but vehement in its promise of a continued U.S. commitment. Though "the era that was shaped by decisions of a generation ago is ending," he said, the U.S.-European partnership could survive. By the time the President begins his European tour in the fall, Kissinger promised...
...Nixon Administration has developed a new language-a kind of Nix-speak. Government officials are entitled to make flat statements one day, and the next day reverse field with the simple phrase, "I misspoke myself." White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler enlarged the vocabulary last week, declaring that all of Nixon's previous statements on Watergate were "inoperative." Not incorrect, not misinformed, not untrue-simply inoperative, like batteries gone dead. Euphemisms notwithstanding, the Nixon Administration's verbal record on Watergate is enough to turn ardent believers into skeptics. Some examples of "inoperative" statements from Administration officials who misspoke...
Scali managed to sidestep a veto. The Security Council voted 11-0, with the U.S. and three other nations abstaining, to adopt a resolution that condemned Israel's raids on Lebanon and also deplored "all recent acts of violence"-a phrase that could be interpreted to include Arab terrorism. The compromise did not please the Arabs. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed el-Zayyat declared that "if the situation in the Middle East defies any solution today it is because of United States support for Israel...
Barnaby has repeated this same phrase twice in the last week, and his team has responded by thrashing Brown and Yale...