Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late sixties and early seventies, women like those in 888 Memorial Drive had been creating women's centers and marching in the streets because they understood that unless they made the theory of equality more than just a theory, women's rights would be just a textbook phrase. Radcliffe women have been getting A's for years. But the women in the streets, some of them bizarre, most of them angry, took the initiative to change the conditions we all agreed were dismal. They had impact, and now we're going to law school...
...have heard the cliche that if a chimp typed continuously for a given length of time, the odds are that sooner or later an intelligent word or phrase would result...
...punk recruit. Furthermore, the bullet was fired into the very end of his digestive tract from a range that politely can only be called pointblank. At a meeting of lawyers and publishers, Mailer offered to reduce Lelchuk to "a hank of hair and some fillings." That literary phrase turned out to be a pretty good description of the novel itself...
...process" -the phrase rings with the sound of constitutional authority. But even lawyers find it hard to define. It has what the textbooks call a "convenient vagueness" that makes its precise limits uncertain. Basically, due process is meant to ensure what the Supreme Court calls "fundamental fairness." It is embodied in the Fifth and 14th amendments to the Constitution, which proclaim that no federal, state or local government can deprive a person of "life, liberty or property without due process of law." Despite the venerability of the concept, however, courts only now are coming to a broad new view...
...than on any previous Traffic albums, yet Winwood still seems unsure of his guitar playing--I've always thought it the weakest of the instruments he plays--because his wah-wah lead is way back in the song's mix. Chris Wood appears only once, with a skirling flute phrase and then fades into the background during the song's overlong one-riff finale...