Word: phrased
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Such additions and permutations make the new prayer book nearly twice as thick as the 1928 edition. But even so, in the process many a burnished and beloved phrase has been edited flat or cast into outer darkness. In the marriage service, "till death do us part" becomes "until we are parted by death." In the renovated baptism, the priest will no longer pray that the child be given strength to defeat "the devil, the world and the flesh...
Hackett really loses his credibility, though, when he shyly evades the issues which should be at the core of any "third world war" scenario. Nuclear deterrence is a distasteful and outmoded phrase to General Sir John. In his rush to prove that "flexible response" makes a 1980s European land war a possibility, he conveniently forgets that this policy evolved to meet Soviet threats, real or perceived, in odd corners of the world. Places like Vietnam, not West Germany. European strategic thought should still be based firmly on the existence of nuclear stockpiles on both sides. If Hackett represents a style...
...between the revolution in Cuba and the one that many observers expect will take hold in Nicaragua. The FSLN'S Slogan, FREE THE FATHERLAND OR DIE, was the battle cry of Nicaragua's legendary rebel leader of the 1930s, Augusto Sandino. It had inspired the Castroite catch phrase, FATHERLAND OR DEATH. While the people of Managua celebrated, the disciplined Sandinista troops, who will become the country's only effective force for maintaining law-and-order, looked on. Whether Nicaragua's revolution proves to be a moderate one or a reproduction of Castro's coup depends...
Brezhnev read a prepared statement, describing the process of negotiating SALT II. He said that Soviet and American negotiators had achieved an "equal and balanced" agreement in which the Soviets had made concessions. He emphasized that the Soviets and Americans had negotiated the treaty thoroughly-"every word, every phrase, hundreds of times...
...press's responsibility in libel suits or criminal trials isn't necessarily tearing the First Amendment to tatters, neither are "American courts on a rampage" against the press, as former CBS Correspondent Daniel Schorr argues. Critics often lament court decisions for their "chilling effect"-a mealy phrase that should have gone out with the McCarthy era, when the normal good sense of timorous people was too easily chilled...