Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Greeting Gorbachev on the tarmac, Haughey opened with "Cead Mile Failte" (100,000 Welcomes), a traditional Irish language phrase. And to an approving smile from Gorbachev, the 63-year-old prime minister added in Russian, "I'm delighted you have arrived in our country...
Although Flaubert, who was always engaged in a search for just the right word or phrase, sometimes wrote only a few lines in a day, his parents amassed quite a good deal of land (at least a full chapter of the book details its location and exact acerage), which provided a consistent income in rents...
Harvard women's fencing Captain Penelope Papailias paced the sidelines at the Northeast Regionals Saturday in New Haven, repeating the phrase "St. Stephen" to herself...
...English-speaking TV viewers, the phrase might have meant anything: "Mayieu kuna. Ijooki inamuk sapukin." So when a recent TV commercial for Nike sneakers featured a traditionally dressed Samburu tribesman in Kenya uttering those words in Maa, the local tongue, an English subtitle was thoughtfully provided: "Just do it," which is the slogan from Nike's current campaign...
Besieged by armies of hunters, many herds are literally on the run. Conservationists use the phrase "refugee elephants" to describe animals fleeing Mozambique to crowd into protected areas in Zimbabwe. The killing of older animals with the biggest tusks threatens to reduce herds to what Tanzanian game manager Constantius Mlay describes as collections of naive teenagers without the wise old elephants needed as leaders in times of drought and food scarcity...