Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members and students across the river rushed vigorously to the defense. The standard they raised to rally support for the school's teaching techniques, however, is a barely visible one: no two people can ever be sure that they are talking about the same thing when they use the phrase "case method...
...thing, unlike last year, the games won't count in ECAC Division One competition. But more than that, the Beanpot is (to borrow an oft-used phrase) "a season in itself." Two quick wins at the Garden transcend any number of embarassing disasters in Ithaca, Potsdam or Hanover. Conversely, failing to uphold a reputation as number one in the Beanpot puts a damper on even the most successful of years...
...officials indicated that legislation to authorize a military aid package was sure to be delayed because Washington and Islamabad were far from agreement on its size and scope. The Pakistanis continued to belittle a U.S. proposal of $400 million in aid as "peanuts," in General Zia's phrase, and planned to submit a lengthy military shopping list costing in the billions...
...exhibitions have offered such extreme pleasures to the eye. Though the pleasures are taxing, because of a scale of detail so tiny that the museum supplies magnifying glasses, Christopher Marlowe's phrase, "Infinite riches in a little room," takes on a special meaning with these miniatures. They are the condensed products of an immense appetite for the world and its fruits, compressed into a few square inches of surface. They are also fresher than most European Renaissance paintings because they have been protected between the covers of books, so that the pigment has not faded through exposure to light...
...early 1960s; of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage; in Phoenix. Powers was a much decorated pilot in World War II, the Berlin Airlift and the Korean War before rocketing to fame as a NASA spokesman beginning in 1959. As Project Mercury's earth-bound "eighth astronaut," he contributed the phrase A-O.K. to the nation's vocabulary...