Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kindly a man to shake up the place. One who senses a deeper strength in Albert is TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil, a longtime scholar and historian of the House. Says he: "I believe, after 16 years of knowing the man well, that he does have, in Rayburn's phrase, 'iron in his backbone.' He does not enter the speakership with any queasy thoughts that he is inadequate to the office. He intends to prove himself, not with any sense of personal aggrandizement or arrogance, but because he knows that he has a job that must be done...
...policy of the United States to maintain a government in South Vietnam against the wishes of the people," he said. Pressed by members of the group who contended that the present government of South Vietnam is a military dictatorship maintained by American power, he repeated the phrase...
...current cliché from the political lexicon-"the people's right to know"-marks the battlefield but does not exactly illuminate it. This lofty phrase was first used a quarter of a century ago by the late Kent Cooper, then executive director of the Associated Press. "It means," he explained, "that the Government may not, and the newspapers and broadcasters should not, by any method whatever, curb delivery of any information essential to the public welfare and enlightenment." The Constitution, as it happens, does not provide for any such right. The courts, moreover, have never interpreted the First Amendment...
...scavenging trend-setters, after having been beaten lifeless and ground up into a pasty, ready-to-serve-easy-to-digest product, after having been mashed between the gums of force-fed consumers and spat out in a tasteless wad of words, if after going through all this the phrase "doing your own thing" can still have any meaning, then it has meaning in the style of the Grateful Dead...
...throwing abandon to the winds-as Segal himself might phrase it-Sumner Redstone, class of '44 and head of Boston's Redstone Showcase Theatres, announced that on the ever-after-to-be-memorable night of December 18 the Circle Theatre's usually scheduled performances of Catch-22 would be cancelled in order that Paramount could bring in a private screening of Love Story -opening December 25 at the same theatre, lest anyone forget. Accordingly, invitations went out to the Harvard hockey team, virtually everyone on the payroll of the Department of Athletics, as many of the Harvard extras as Paramount...