Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates began to head for Philadelphia, Ike issued the first statement since January (TIME, July 12). All in all, it was unequivocal enough, and the Ike-for-President drive faltered. But the statement contained one phrase: "I will not-at this time . . ." Quite possibly he meant: "Not in 1948, boys." Democrats, clutching at straws, could read it: "Not on Monday but maybe on Thursday, if I still hear a call." Almost immediately, Florida's glib Senator Claude Pepper made what was meant to be the most dramatic proposal...
Awaiting him was the Republican Party which had quoted a challenging phrase from Lincoln in its platform: "We must think anew and act anew...
Last week, doctors searching for a safe and effective anesthetic seemed nearer their goal. The new technique, gradually improved over the last several years, is a variation of spinal anesthesia (first used for general surgery at the turn of the century). Doctors describe it, in a jawbreaking phrase, as "heavy nupercaine to produce saddle-block anesthesia." Nupercaine is a cocaine substitute. "Heavy" means that it is loaded with a glucose (sugar) solution to make it heavier than the body's spinal fluid. "Saddle block" aptly describes the area anesthetized (the inner thigh and perineum...
...Every generation has a philosophy, a theme, a major premise. When my generation sat where you . . . sit today, we, as a generation, had a rather definite philosophy. This guiding principle . . . can be summed up in this phrase: 'Take care of Number One' . . . It seemed eminently sensible . . . If everyone took care of Number One, and concentrated on that-why obviously the sum total of all the Number Ones would be prosperity and happiness all around...
...cannot commend to your generation the philosophy of my own. What I propose in its stead I can compress in this phrase: 'Be an active, living part of your times...