Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This phrase has not lost its power to jar the senses about social injustice. The words themselves endure, and breathe fire into those who work to tear down existing social, economic, and racial barriers, whatever stands in the way of equality...
...phrase endures, but it can only flicker like a weak flame in the glare of continued social injustice...
...against the ridge behind the front teeth. It is an exercise against the tongue-lolling tendency that Inman-Ebel says characterizes 70% of Southern speakers. She says many Southerners suffer not just from forward tongue carry but also from unwanted "nasal emissions" (or twang), "restricted mandibles" ("a big phrase for talking with your mouth closed") and "oral-facial muscular imbalance...
FREUD coined a now-popular term, "anal-retentiveness," that means more and more to me while I'm at Harvard. I'm not a psychologist, so I have no idea if I use the phrase correctly, but lately I notice a preponderance of such behavior...
Frank has spoken at two rallies supporting the union. In 1984, at a union holiday party, he coined the phrase, "It's not anti-Harvard to be pro-union," in a speech, and gave the union one of its best-known campaign slogans...