Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the memories burrow back, fumbling for a lost face or fact, the saving phrase is "You could ask Tommy." Tommy McCarthy is the unofficial connection with the Red Sox organization for the Old Boys of Spring. Tommy has been hustling around Fenway Park for 50 years, come this summer, since he began working the concessions as a 16-year-old. For 42 years he has been on the Red Sox payroll. This is his 38th spring training...
...guerrillas for a negotiated settlement. The U.S. has consistently opposed negotiations that would require the government to give up at the bargaining table what the insurgents have not been able to win on the battlefield or at the polls. Indeed, "negotiated settlement" has become something of a loaded code phrase to describe the approach embraced by the French, as well as some members of the U.S. Congress, that would force the Salvadoran government to share power with leftists. But one staunch supporter of Salvadoran President José Napoleón Duarte's hard line against dealing with the guerrillas...
...Central America ("Give me both barrels, don't hold back"). Kirkpatrick: "I think CBS has been particularly bad, if I may say so." The New York Times and Washington Post also got low marks from Kirkpatrick. All three, she said, "suffer from the Viet Nam syndrome." That phrase is also used by Reagan, apparently to describe a press that doesn't believe its Government and "challenges what we're doing." The President told TV Guide: "Had that been done in World War II, in behalf of the enemy that was killing American military men, I think there...
...after the missiles are fired, would there be anything?and anyone?left? Should nuclear weapons be regarded simply as new and more destructive instruments for waging war? And thereby, in Karl von Clausewitz's famous phrase, continuing politics by other means? Some strategists, including a number who are either members of or consultants to the Reagan Administration, believe that with proper improvements in American defenses, the U.S. could wage and win a nuclear war. Despite the disclaimers of their leaders, some Soviet strategists almost certainly believe their country could do the same thing. Other specialists, both American and Soviet...
Actually, the proceeding phrase tops a recent article in Human Events, the self-proclaimed national conservative weekly. You may then ask: What in the world is a right-wing magazine doing criticizing a man who has consistently advocated military preparedness and combatting communists the world over...