Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congress (see WORLD) had been expected by some Administration foreign policy experts to be an anti-American diatribe. Instead, Brezhnev suggested a summit meeting between himself and Reagan, and expressed a willingness to talk further about arms control while retaining the SALT II treaty's "positive elements"-a phrase reminiscent of Reagan's speeches during last fall's campaign. Brezhnev also tossed out a variety of negotiating ideas that Secretary of State Alexander Haig judged "new and remarkable." Among them: a hint that the Soviets might consider expanding an existing agreement under which NATO and the Warsaw...
...phrase made famous by Franco's partisans during the 1936-39 Civil...
...opposition to earmarking. Harvard funds for a Third World center akin to those that exist at Princeton, Yale, Brown and Stanford, Bok states, "I would not attach a high priority to any project that might serve, at least symbolically, to emphasize a separation between different races. 'The phrase, "at least symbolically" springs up from the paper, providing only one example of the highly-qualified language characterizing Bok's text. Whereas Afro-Am is definitely not a "questionable field of study" nor "a political concession," a Third World center might stress separatism--"at least symbolically." These three words typify a letter...
With dizzying speed, SNCC had turned from its strictly non-violent suits and ties at lunch counters to a strident denim-overalls organizing in the fields. It soon shifted again, this time to "Black Power" (a phrase made prominent by SNCC member Willie Ricks), and proceeded to expel its white members. Before the 1960s ended, it had forsaken the "non-violent" in its name, and become the "Student National Coordinating Committee." It began to speak a new language--Molotov cocktails, inflaming, needling, never giving an inch...
Whenever they start talking about Barry Hannah in the periodicals, they always bring up the Southern Writer thing. Southern Writers. The phrase rolls blissfully off the tongue as if it actually mertied those majuscules. It rolls off the tongue like a fait accompli, like some sort of advertising slogan. Southern Writers. Northern Lights. Westward...