Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crusading campus journalists: the phrase seems an echo from the dawn of the 1970s, when liberal young men and women in weathered jeans and lumberjack flannels would rail impassionedly at college deans and Uncle Sam for supposed indifference to the will of the people. In the years since, campuses all but fell silent. Now students are crusading again, attacking the same ready targets but from a diametrically opposite direction: the right...
...song entitled "Dirty Laundry," Don Henley portrays the news media as a group who like to "kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down." To me, this phrase exemplifies perfectly the Crimson's attitude towards the new Undergraduate Council...
...dinner with 200 members of the Reserve Officers Association in 1949, Truman got worked up over criticism of his crony, Major General Harry Vaughan, and called Columnist Drew Pearson an "s.o.b." The White House purged the transcript, but it was too late. Gasped the Chicago Sun-Times: "The dirty phrase used by Mr. Truman has shocked millions who feel that every President becomes a symbol for clean-minded youth...
...against internal turmoil, even if it were instigated from outside. For two years after the Rapid Deployment Force was created, the official Arabic translation of the name could have been understood to mean "rapid intervention force." That is exactly the connotation Washington wants to avoid, and the Arabic phrase was changed so that there would be no such misunderstanding...
Then I declared the energy effort to be the moral equivalent of war, a phrase coined by William James and suggested to me by Admiral Hyman Rickover, it was impossible for me to imagine the bloody legislative battles ahead. Throughout my entire term, Congress and I struggled with energy legislation. Despite my frustration, there was never a moment when I did not consider the creation of a national energy policy equal in importance to any other goal...