Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leadership. Episcopal Layman Charles P. Taft, president of the U.S. Federal Council of Churches and brother of Republican Senator Robert A. Taft, promptly tried to modify the condemnation of capitalism. He proposed inserting the phrase "the wholly self-regulating laissez-faire theory of capitalism" (i.e., pushing the condemnation back to the days of the 19th Century robber barons). The council accepted only the adjective "laissez-faire...
...cool, deliberate and professional, at times tripping up and correcting his questioners, at all times insisting on giving a precise answer. Knowing better than anyone that a possible perjury charge hung on his every word, he almost never offered a flat yes or a flat no. His favorite phrase, as he fenced tediously with the committee, was: "To the best of my recollection." He used it and similar phrases 198 times...
...rush job entrusted to Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok, whose English is perfect and who has been called one of the three top authorities on modern Hebrew. After an all-night session with three assistants in his Tel Aviv flat, Shertok came to the last paragraph, which contained the phrase "Rock of Israel." He started to translate it that way, but met an objection from the girl at the typewriter. Ruth Goldschmidt, an English-born Israeli who heads the official government news agency, said Rock of Israel would mean nothing to non-Jews. She suggested that the phrase "Almighty...
...Hearst's Journal-American Paul Gallico wound himself up and let himself go: "Home was the Home Run King . . . For this was what Ruth was king and master of -the stroke that led to home. All men are ever turning homeward. The very baseball phrase-'Home Run'-has a music of its own . . ." On the sport page, Bill Corum told how he had known for some time that "the Great Umpire had his thumb pressed against 'strike three' on the final and inescapable indicator." And Sport Editor Jimmy Powers, a more literary fellow, quoted John...
...informed of other facts which create dissatisfaction in the U.S.S.R . . . Leading comrades in Yugoslavia are saying things like "The [Soviet] All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) is degenerate," and "the Cominform is a means of controlling other parties by the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks)." These anti-Soviet phrases are usually covered up by leftist phrases such as "Socialism in the Soviet Union has ceased to be revolutionary" . . . It would be pertinent to mention that Trotsky . . . also started accusing the [Soviet] Communist Party of being degenerate . .. behind the leftist phrase of world revolution. However, Trotsky himself degenerated . . . We think...