Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During their 1948 War for Independence, Israeli Jews adopted a phrase to hearten one another no matter how gloomy a situation appeared. "Yihye tov," they would say in Hebrew, meaning "It will be good." The words gradually became a talisman against any troubles, and they were invoked frequently during the Six-Day War -whose third anniversary comes this week. Now, however, the phrase has been amended. "Yihye beseder" or roughly, "It will be O.K." The difference seems slight, but it is not. Confidence has given way to a nagging note of uncertainty. Things may be O.K., but they will...
Last week the Cooper-Church measure could have been passed with about 55 votes in its favor. There was no vote, however, because opponents wanted to "discuss the matter at length," as Dole put it. That is a polite phrase for a small, undeclared guerrilla-style filibuster. A vote will take place this week, but only on the preamble. Debate on the amendment's core might go on indefinitely, since it takes a two-thirds vote to impose cloture. The tone that it could take was suggested by Michigan Senator Robert Griffin's remark that the amendment would...
Dean Dunlop said at a press conference on Friday there is a "fear of the Houses becoming a Lawrence Hall situation-I'm not sure that's the best phrase but I think it conveys what I mean...
...wonders how long presidents can wage wars without consulting those who are asked to die in them. The key phrase in Mr. Nixon's speech was the part about his not wanting to be the first President to lose a war and refusing to let the U.S. become a "second-rate power." Isn't it ironic that the U.S. always laughs at the Orientals trying to "save face...
...complicity in their own isolation. But I am not interested in indicting the President, because I believe that virtually all of us have failed in our duty as Americans. While each of us pursues his selfish interest and comforts himself by blaming others, the nation disintegrates. I use the phrase soberly: the nation disintegrates...