Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which now, with Rossini's The Siege of Corinth, has finally mounted for her the kind of production she deserves. Her fans paid up to $500 to see her on opening night and were in no mood for restraint or even courtesy: they cut off a singer in mid-phrase as soon as Sills stepped quietly on stage to give her a two-minute ovation...
...Sills handled it all by laughing. The more tired she got, the more often she sat down between arias to massage her back, the more she joked with Diaz and Verre,; a few times they missed their cues and had to whirl around and catch the line in mid phrase. At one point while Sills herself was running through an aria. Schippers barked out a directive--she thought he was going to stop so she started to speak. A second later she realized that the music was still going, caught her ascending scale where she had dropped it and carried...
...Sandinistas call their political strategy "prolonged armed struggle," a phrase that illustrates another necessary quality they possess--patience. They are to predicting any early victories. They advocate a struggle balanced between city and country, and say that at present they are warning, putting on trial and sometimes executing, particularly oppressive landlords and government officials in rural areas. Their tactics are highly imaginative: one of their December 27 demands was that the government give a pay raise to the lower ranks of the National Guard, and obvious efforts to separate the soldiers from the officers. And two weeks later, doubtless embarrassed...
...there they were last week, struggling toward sanctuaries deeper and deeper in the South. Were they "voting with their feet," in the phrase used to describe, among other things, the escape of East Germans to the West? Was Communism a more important threat to the peasant, as well as the middle-class merchant, than it was sometimes made...
...Assistant Secretary of State in the Johnson Administration, believes that "we've done far more than [South Viet Nam] could reasonably have expected at every stage of the proceedings." Bundy's predecessor at the State Department, Roger Hilsman, now a professor at Columbia University, found that "the phrase, 'What we owe the Vietnamese is a peace,' strikes home...