Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awareness. They learned that mail-order merchandise is the most common target for complaints (followed by automobiles, home repairs, government agencies, utility companies, landlords and retail stores). The columnists were only dimly aware of the magnitude of the mailorder problem until their get-together. Then passing mention of the phrase "five towels for a dollar" sent a tidal wave of groans across the hall...
...flies, a firm believer in the supernatural, Singer has mysteriously grown more prolific with age: since his 50th birthday he has written eight novels, ten children's books, four memoirs and scores of short stories. All of them are suffused with, in the Nobel committee's memorable phrase, "the author's apparently inexhaustible psychological fantasy ... of manias and superstitions, fanatical hopes and dreams, the figments of terror, the lure of lust or power...
...Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) say a lot about the state of the American Right this year. It's not that their likely victories will actually contribute to the much-fabled Shift to the Right. They will not preside over the funeral of the "New South" (a fashionable phrase since at least the 1870s). There will be no total surrender to the beast that just gobbled Michael Dukakis...
...developing over West Bank because Begin insists that the preamble to U.N. Resolution 242, banning territorial "acquisitions by conquest," should not be part of any Camp David agreement. Arguments over this, says one participant, are "mind-blowing" and incredibly legalistic. Three hours devoted to "the inadmissibility of acquisitions" phrase. Worried Americans take lunch on a patio, ponder some way to bridge the West Bank gulf. They devise ingenious two-track solution: let Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Palestinians negotiate at one level over final status of West Bank; let Israel and Jordan also seek a peace treaty at same time, with...
...powers have succeeded in thwarting the Russians. In the 19th century the British Empire, from such places as Ottoman Turkey, Persia and the frontiers of India, intrigued and battled against Russian expansion. Britain's Prime Minister Lord Palmerston seemed to delight in all the machinations; to him, in a phrase first attributed to Rudyard Kipling, it was "the great game." In the 20th century the game has continued, with somewhat different rules and different players. The Soviets have replaced the czars, and the U.S. has supplanted Britain...