Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just fine" as a key phrase that encompassed my diseased physical and mental condition. At the nadir, my addiction to a chemical that was killing me was nearly complete. I knew that something was very wrong with me. I even knew I was an alcoholic, but I had long since come to believe there was nothing I could do about it. I had decided that it was perfectly appropriate -- just fine -- that I should die. In fact, I honestly hoped that * I would, sparing further grief for many people I loved. Dying, I thought, was the best thing I could...
UConn moves quickly on goal, corner and free kicks in order to keep the game flowing. Morrone called Harvard's system "destructive soccer," and, like with most of his post-game remarks, prefaced his explanation with the phrase "when you have foreign players...
BIRDS OF a feather flock together, to coin a phrase. To coin another, less quotable one, when inclement weather impends, birds fly south in search of sunshine and a more pleasant limb...
Welcome to the "Second Revolution," a phrase used by both Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to describe the upheaval in economics and ideas now under way in the two Communist powers. The Chinese speak of gai ge (reform) or kai fang (opening up). The Soviets refer to perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). What the new slogans herald is the most far-ranging shift in course since Dictator Joseph Stalin drove the Soviet Union onto the path of forced collectivization and heavy industrialization in the 1930s and Beijing's Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, launched the Cultural...
...hockey colloquialism, the above phrase describes hard-nosed players, those willing to dig the puck out of the corner by sticking their nose in and banging some bodies...