Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preacher of patience," he warns; "I'm highly impatient myself." But then comes the phrase that puts Leonard's impatience in his role in the Bok administration in context: "On the other hand, I'm also a realist...
...told reporters: "We finally have achieved a peach with honor. I know it gags some of you to write that phrase, but it is true...
...phrase "banned in Boston" has been a titillating endorsement of smut for generations. Recently, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court struck down all the Commonwealth's obscenity laws as unconstitutionally vague, leaving literally nothing taboo in Cotton Mather's old domain. To fill the moral vacuum, the Massachusetts legislature's joint judiciary committee drew up a bill so graphic that when it was read aloud on the house floor by Representative Barney Frank, spectators in the gallery gasped...
...illegality of hiring practices based on race or sex has been so etched into the national consciousness that the phrase "equal opportunity employer (M/F)" needs no explanation to anyone who reads help-wanted ads. Many fewer people realize that there also is a six-year-old federal law against age bias in employment; among other things, it provides that workers aged 40 to 65 can be fired only for deficient performance or other good cause. Now the Government is stepping up enforcement of the law. Last week it won a settlement under which Standard Oil of California agreed...
...Chicago Tribune editors know well that every presidential word and phrase is not to be etched in marble. It is not the case at the White House, nor in the corporate suites of Manhattan, nor even in the editorial offices on Michigan Avenue...