Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House staff. Said Washington Post White House Correspondent Lou Cannon: "The question is, How can you be an effective spokesman for policies and people you yourself don't agree with?" White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan acknowledged Buchanan's potential conflicts: "I reminded Pat of an old phrase, 'accepting the King's shilling.' He agrees that he will support the Administration's final position." Toward the press, however, Buchanan has shown no comparable mellowing: at week's end he was not returning telephone calls from reporters seeking comment on his appointment...
McChristian's testimony was among the most dramatic of the trial. He not only attributed to Westmoreland the "political bombshell" phrase, which the commander testified he had never spoken, but also rejected Westmoreland's claim to have disputed the cable on substantive grounds. Said McChristian: "He had the right to question the intelligence, but this isn't what happened at that meeting...
...attacks the United States' ties to South Africa but also criticizes the attitudes that have made "people of color" doubt their own value. "Without Commericals" is a taut poem that appeals directly to the reader. Like a revolutionary manifesto, it repeats its message, both exhorting and assuring in one phrase. But for Walker, the enemy is not The White Man: She is perceptive enough to identify cosmetic beauty as oppressive because of the impossible ideals we are told to reach for and admire. Physical beauty has become a commodity we can acquire but at the cost of our self-esteem...
...Harvard, Rondeau said, the University can add tasks to jobs because most descriptions are followed by the phrase" and perform other duties as desired...
Bernhard Goetz, who was mugged on the train in 1981, was a regular subway rider even after that assault. Surely he, like all other regular subway riders, has seen just about every imaginable thing, and some that have led to the phrase "only in New York" becoming a cliche, like the man who rode the IND with a Burmese python wrapped around his neek. One of those things is kids with sharpened screwdrivers in their jackets asking you for money to play video games. But in Bernhard Goetz, something finally snapped, and he told four Black teenagers that...