Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact remains that there is no justification for permitting non-needy tenants to benefit unduly from rent control. In February of 1986, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of rent control, provided that it does not constitute, in Thurgood Marshall's phrase, a "private price-fixing conspiracy...
...homecoming parade the time his daughter Carla was elected queen because he was digging up his parents' old septic tank and transporting it to the town dump. But, he said, it was just a . . . well, prevarication to say that hauling his load of "thirty years of family history" (nice phrase), he made a wrong turn and ran smack-dab into the National Guard tank that was Carla's float in the parade...
...borrow a European soccer phrase, the Crimson looked "sick as a parrot" in yesterday's men's soccer contest against Hartford...
When he was still a lonely high school kid in Martins Ferry, Ohio, the factory worker's son who would later become -- in Critic Peter Stitt's phrase -- "one of the very great heroes of American poetry" used to drop by Margret Ashbrook's house and slide his poems across the table for Margret and her mom to see. "He showed us a poem that had the word slob in it, and we told him that was an unpoetic word," recalls Margret. "But he said that's how it is, and that's how he feels, and that...
...Company. By the time Richard Nixon's book came along, in 1978, a Committee to Boycott Nixon's Memoirs had been born. Its slogan, "Don't buy books from crooks," failed to work; the Nixon tome earned him $2.2 million, and the hardback became a best seller. But the phrase caught the spirit of the only official ethical stand that Americans have ventured on sensational exploitations. In some 30 states, so-called Son of Sam laws (named for the serial murderer who killed six young women in New York City in 1976 and 1977) now seek to ensure that victims...