Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes arcane vocabulary of the space program, the oft-repeated phrase "Roger, Houston," uttered with a kind of professional jauntiness, has always sounded reassuringly familiar. But as plans for defense-oriented space missions begin to take shape, it is apparent that future military astronauts communicating with ground control may punctuate their messages with the more mellifluous "Roger, Colorado." The reason is the Air Force's $1.15 billion, 640-acre Consolidated Space Operations Center, now rising on the barren prairie just outside of Colorado Springs...
...case of the White House communications director, Patrick Buchanan, was stranger still. NBC News Correspondent Marvin Kalb reported that at a White House meeting with Jewish leaders about Reagan's Sunday itinerary, Buchanan was seen repeatedly scribbling the phrase "succumbing to the pressure of the Jews" in his notebook. Kalb's report implied that the former conservative columnist was jotting down his own views. Buchanan, who has declined to speak openly with the press since taking his White House job in February, temporarily broke his silence to call any such implication "misleading" and "downright silly...
Another pet phrase, voiced by the rather dazed huntsmen and villagers of the dream scenes is, "They say seeing is believing..." This is usually muttered after the hacked-off forepaw or noggin of a wolf develops hominoid traits in instant coffee fashion...
SPRING lever. It's not just a phrase, but a serious ailment. And I think...
...FIRST the phrase "historical novel" sounds like a contradiction in terms. Can a writer really combine in one book events of far-reaching importance with a close-up look at a few unique characters and still produce a viable piece of fictions. The problem appears to be one of scale. To most history considers significant occurrences, often affecting millions of people while fiction focuses on the intricate subtleties of individual lives...