Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said. Slowly he rubbed his fingers over his chin. "I see that job as a burden," he answered, "not as an opportunity." He glanced over at Lincoln's bronze hands. He views the job much as Lincoln did, Cuomo said, and as Lincoln did, he muses on the biblical phrase "Let this cup pass...
Pretty in pictures, she is prettier in person. Critic Pauline Kael's phrase, "charismatic normality," has Molly nailed. The charisma sets her apart as the one young movie actress who can set teens queueing at the box office--though typically, in today's fragmented pop culture, she remains virtually unknown to anyone over 30--and whose punk-flapper fashion sense is imitated by thousands of "Ringlets," her very own girl groupies. They pay tribute by dyeing their hair orange (as she does, from her natural dark reddish brown), smearing lipstick from nose to chin and dressing in Molly's unique...
Second, a covering letter from James N. Bailey, Chairman of the Nominating Committee for Overseers candidates, making a clear distinction between the 10 candidates proposed by his Committee (whose process he extols in two long paragraphs) and the three "self-nominates" candidates, who merit three lines. (And that phrase "self-nominated" is pretty cute in itself--it's pejorative, echoing similar journalistic devices like "self-proclaimed" and "self-styled," as well as untrue: they were nominated by 800 of their fellow alumni, as the procedures call...
Pundits and political scientists have a fancy, almost tongue-tying bit of jargon for this tendency: global unilateralism. That phrase has been bandied about by both admirers and critics of the Administration, as well as by others who are ambivalent about official American attitudes and behavior...
King became a symbol of something. Wallace became a symbol of something else. Now King is a national holiday. Wallace is an extinct volcano, to tamper with Disraeli's phrase...