Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was no New Deal revival: the New Deal, accepted and respectable with age, was by now almost old hat. Harry Truman, in an offhand phrase that was his own, not his speechwriters', had called the new era the Fair Deal. The young bloods of the 81st Congress had not come to Washington, cheering and defiant, to start a revolution. They had come to consolidate one. As the Democrats heard it, what the people really said last November was that they wanted not new highways but a widening of the roads that Franklin Roosevelt had built...
Warren made a speech which demonstrated his infinite capacity for the revolving, roller-bearing, dipsy-doodle phrase. He "took up the burden" . . . "entered upon consecrated service" and promised to "eliminate roaming livestock from the roads." He promised that one & all could come to his office and see him, though, he added with a wink, "... it will help a whole lot if you voted right...
Chester Bowles was inaugurated as governor of Connecticut, and coined a phrase which seemed to stem equally from his background as 1) a New York advertising executive, and 2) head of OPA. Democrat Bowles promised the state a program of "competent liberalism...
Stalin's grand, flexible strategy is, Historicus says, to make Russia a base to support two movements-the proletariat of the West and the anti-imperialist movements for national liberation in the East-merging them into [Stalin's phrase] "a single world front against the world front of imperialism...
Over & over, the Buenos Aires radio blared praise of Peron and La Senora. Scarcely half an hour went by without a newscaster using the phrase: "The wife of the President of the Republic, Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron." Argentines were inured to such laminated logrolling, but their Uruguayan neighbors across the River Plate had to hear it too, and they were not amused...