Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college administration buildings have discovered the uneasy feeling of being hit over the head by a billy club. Indeed, the estimation of policemen has been steadily declining among the young people in America, as is perhaps best shown by the popularization of that not altogether complimentary catch-phrase...
...work of the cast, all of whom played their roles in the original off-Broadway production. These are all great character actors, but particularly outstanding are Cliff Gorman's Emory and Leonard Frey's incredible Harold, "the pock-marked Jewish fairy" birthday boy; Mr. Frey does more with a phrase like "Turning on" than you could possibly imagine...
Whatever its intent, it is a phrase that will undoubtedly cling to Moynihan and the Nixon Administration. The President liked the memorandum and asked for its wide circulation. It went to three other White House assistants, four Cabinet members, and no fewer than 25 copies circulated around HEW, where, Moynihan suspects, the leak occurred. Reaction from liberals was swift. Twenty-one civil rights leaders made a highly emotional public reply, complaining that the memo was a "flagrant and shameful political document." It all depended on how the memo was read: it was, after all, written in the context of White...
Dropping in on a class in the Eskimo language at Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau learned one phrase -possibly the only one a visitor needs in that bleak settlement. The word is takva oost, and it means goodbye...
...Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses," said Louisa May Alcott, "he had best stop writing for them." Such scoldings came despite Mark Twain's prepublication agreement to eliminate references to blasphemy, bad odors, dead cats, and to change the phrase "in a sweat" to "worrying...