Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic National Convention in July, the phrase "boycott lettuce" became almost a password. It fell fervently from the lips of any number of heads of delegations, and it was finally consummated as a cause when Ted Kennedy, at the peak of convention excitement, began his speech: "Greetings, fellow lettuce boycotters...
...Monty Python crew learned how to raise nonsense to dizzying heights: a filmed cabaret act of two brothers who play tape recorders concealed in their noses; a Hungarian tourist who reads to startled British shopkeepers such sentences as "My Hovercraft is full of eels" from a wildly mistranslated phrase book; a mob of old ladies, "Hell's Grannies," who terrorize London; an earnest competition for "Upper-Class Twit of the Year." These goonish concepts are executed with due gusto by Graham Chapman...
...neurotic to defend himself, the whole tour de force seems less a caper than an assault. The even more basic flaw in Irving's portrait of himself as heroic caperer is his view that the gullible deserve to be gulled. "The name of the game" is a phrase that keeps coming from Suskind, who also likes to quote W.C. Fields' untrue statement that "you can't cheat an honest man." It is one thing to offer a gold brick to a stranger, but it is quite another to sell watered stock to your neighbors. Irving based...
...Government's General Accounting Office recently filtered a gentle reminder down through the various federal bureaus: the final date was drawing near for nominations for the Maurice H. Stans Award for Distinguished Financial Management. The memorandum noted that the broadest reasonable interpretation of the phrase "financial management" could be used in putting forward candidates...
...founded in 1910. Like many other institutions that have served the nation with pride and distinction during a simpler era, the Boy Scouts have an image problem. By some granny knot of fate, the inner city has come to challenge the resourcefulness of democratic frontier ideals. But the phrase "Boy Scout" still evokes vignettes of white suburban striplings rubbing sticks together in church basements...