Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Caserta, near Naples ("like Belleville to Newark, a stone's throw"). John now lives in an apartment over the shop. A small man in thick purple-tinted glasses, he sometimes wears a battered fedora, Jimmy Durante-style, and likes to share a lifetime of wisdom, usually prefaced by the phrase "You know what's wrong with this country...
...strikeouts in Houston a few weeks ago because the team still won. Among all his gaudy statistics, runs scored has become Davis' favorite category. "Runs win ball games," he explains. "Eric's a grown-up kid now," says Rose, the only man in the world who can use that phrase without irony...
...some Bartlett's and James. If only PBS and C-SPAN deem your performance worthy of coverage, it is cooler not to whine about it. Instead, haul out the quote books and show off your erudition for this upscale audience. Here, for example, is a useful phrase from The Spoils of Poynton: "The fatal futility of Fact...
When Baker mutters, "This dog won't hunt," the old hands around him know that is the end of an idea. His other favorite phrase, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," is equally unspectacular but equally meaningful for the Baker crew. It means stop right there, we don't want any more needless work...
...going to happen. Nuclear weapons aren't going to be abolished, and they're not going to be uninvented. Moreover, nuclear weapons have helped to keep the peace for 40 years. The other myth is that we're going to render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" ((a favorite Reagan phrase)) with a perfect defense ((the Strategic Defense Initiative)). Both myths have...