Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implication of the personal responsibility of that teacher (not forgetting Tennyson and compound verbs) for Marty's inevitable end is unmistakable. Also unmistakable is the old technique that underlies such educational flapdoodle." The life-adjusters are "just as confident that a new phrase will solve problems that have plagued society for centuries ... as [their] predecessors ... of 'Education for Life,' 'Character Education,' 'Correlation and Integration,' 'Air-Age Education,' and 'Atomic-Age Education...
Like every Canadian Prime Minister, St. Laurent faces the problem of bridging the gulf between English and French. His own French-Irish background, his perfect bilingualism, have already contributed a lot toward bringing French-and English-speaking Canada closer. He himself never uses the term "French Canadian"; his phrase is "French-speaking Canadians." But wise Politician St. Laurent knows that French-speaking Canada can not be brushed off with symbols and phrases. He has been methodically building up French Canadian representation in the civil service, where it had fallen well below the 2-to-1 ratio of Canada's English...
...Milton Stanford, a practicing Pantheist,* was first elected to the town council of Brentwood, Md. two years ago. He was sworn in with an oath of office, customary in Brentwood, which contained the phrase "I believe in God." He made no objection at the time but, after thinking it over later on, decided he could not again honestly swear to the statement...
...after 22 years in exile, Georgi Dimitrov went back to Sofia where, in his own phrase, he started to sweep away all opposition with an iron broom. In 1947, Dimitrov's regime hanged Nikola Petkov, courageous democratic leader...
...heard about U.S. publicity and ballyhoo methods. But all through his first ordeal-by-press he seemed to be having a fine time. He turned his massive head alertly from questioner to questioner, often exploding into easy laughter, several times correcting his interpreter in the translation of a phrase. He seemed genuinely surprised by the big turnout. "You are so nice to me," he exclaimed at last in French. "You treat me like a big banker or a prizefighter...