Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Powell: In a phrase made famous by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels: "No ruling class ever voluntarily gives up state power." I would be astonished if the ruling class in the USSR, especially under new leadership, volunteers...
...Soviet officials did seize the opportunity to stop the angry and menacing verbal exchanges that had been escalated into a war of words during the two years that Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev led the superpowers, and to substitute cautious expressions of hope for conciliation. To use the felicitous phrase that Shultz picked up from an American reporter, the "mood music" of U.S.-Soviet relations had suddenly softened...
...such sophisticated service industries as health care, finance and consulting. Tourism plays a part, as do insurance, education, construction and a massive increase in drudging service-sector jobs. But to envious observers in less prosperous states, the magic secret of Massachusetts' success is summed up in one phrase: high tech...
...town fathers of Blanchard, La., have passed two ordinances that give new meaning to the phrase "gag order." One is designed to prohibit city employees from publicly criticizing elected officials. A second bars employees from talking to the press or writing articles without prior permission from city hall. Blanchard (pop. 1,128) enacted the laws after area newspapers quoted an assistant fire chiefs criticism of new aldermen. Violators of the ordinances face disciplinary action in addition to possible firing. Only those few in top elective jobs will be exempted from the ban. That includes Police Chief Ted Bostwick, who grumbles...
Giamatti for his part seemed peeved over the original reaction to his plans. "I was supposed to have called for our athletics to be deemphasized a word I never used any more than I would ever employ that vile phrase" student athlete," he said in an interview with Sports Illustrated...