Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fighting continues, the more likely the left is to win. Supporters further warn that if the militant right-wingers gain power at the polls, they may trigger an even more brutal civil war of resistance. Underlying these arguments is a widespread liberal presumption that the rebels are-in the phrase of TV Actor Edward Asner's protest group, Medical Aid for El Salvador-"the most representative group in the country...
...crystals up the Tiber from the salt pans at Ostia. A soldier's pay-consisting in part of salt-came to be known as solarium argentum, from which we derive the word salary. A soldier's salary was cut if he "was not worth his salt," a phrase that came into being because the Greeks and Romans often bought slaves with salt...
Enders is determined that the U.S. keep struggling toward "away between Somoza and Sandino" a referance to the late U.S.-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza for Nicaragua and the anti-American guerrilla Augusto Cesar Sandino, for whom Nicaragua's ruling leftist Sandinista movement is named. The alliterative phrase He as an Enders aide said, a rueful reminder that Nicaragua is "gone." He considers El Salvador pivotal because if moderates fail to maintain power there, then to Guatemala and even Costa Rica are vulnerable to insurgency...
...tone would make Begin's government less receptive to American persuasion. But Haig's own policy of promoting a "strategic consensus" among the U.S., Israel and moderate Arab states against Soviet penetration of the area has gone nowhere, and the Secretary of State no longer uses the phrase. Haig's lieutenants are now devoting more attention to defusing the Israeli-Arab animosity over the Palestinian issue somehow, but they appear to have no new ideas about how to make progress...
...brothers learned anything in their first two years of power, it was, to use John Kennedy's borrowed phrase, that "victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan." Often he had pondered his humiliation at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961. Some day, he used to muse, he would write the story of the last White House meeting before that debacle, when Kennedy had gone around the table and extracted an opinion from each of his advisers. None foresaw disaster, he said...