Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes a lot of smarts to figure out why Harvard has such a strange Yard-entry policy. Maybe the phrase atop the gate should read "To Enter, Grow in Wisdom." Then again, since you can only get into the Yard through the wide gates, the phrase should read "To Enter in Wisdom, Grow...
...what if you find yourself unwise, with no way out of the Yard late at night? If you bribe one of the security guards to let you out, maybe the phrase should read "To Depart, Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind." But this phrase would assume that the cop is your kind...
Puccio, standing stiffly behind a wooden lectern ten feet from the jury, relentlessly disputed the central tenet of the prosecution's case: that insulin had been used to cause Mrs. Von Bulow's two comas. With increasing vehemence, he punctuated his argument with the phrase "No insulin injection!" as he recapitulated testimony by the defense's medical experts...
...decision, the court struck down Alabama's 1981 moment-of-silence law because of its "endorsement and promotion of prayer." Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for five members of the majority, noted that the 1981 law supplemented an already required daily period of silent "meditation" by adding the phrase "voluntary prayer" to the official reason for silence. Asked at a lower-court hearing if there was any reason for the new law besides a desire to reintroduce prayer in the public schools, the bill's chief sponsor, State Senator Donald Holmes, replied, "No, I did not have no other purpose...
...smile when you say cliche. McMurtry is a storyteller who works hard to satisfy his audience's yearning for the familiar. What, after all, are legends made of? The secret of his success is embellishment, the odd detail or colorful phrase that keeps the tale from slipping into a rut. During a thunderstorm, a cowboy is amazed to see little blue balls of electricity rolling on the horns of cattle. "You stayed gone a while" is poetry compared with "Long time...