Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Delegates from other countries criticized the U.S. position as an inappropriate attempt to impose American values on the rest of the world. Formal speeches avoided direct attacks on the U.S., but the phrase "sovereign rights," meaning that each country should be able to choose its own population-control program, cropped up repeatedly, even in the statements of industrial nations friendly to the U.S., like Australia and West Germany. In the corridors, however, diplomatic façades gave way to resentful, at times bitter, comments. "The U.S. may be concerned about abortion," said Satpal Mittal, a delegate from India, where...
Chernenko: Oh Chebbie, we should sign that man up for Kremlin speech-writing; he has such a catchy turn of the phrase. But what a dumkopf! Doesn't Buckley know that that kind of posturing only caters to the peaceniks and the detentists? I can already hear the shrieking in the halls of Harvard, about blacklisting and freedom of speech and all that other liberal clap-trap...
...East with talk of "a special mission of both German states to 'limit the damage' done by the new round of the arms race in Europe." East Germans recognized the placement of those three words in quotes as a pointed criticism of Honecker, who used the phrase in a speech last fall about the NATO deployment...
...place must be affecting, because though the French and their wounded oar finished last in the heat, the final was broadened to accommodate fairness and one extra craft. "From a sport point of view," the announcement said, it was the only thing to do. What a nice phrase...
While liberation theology has numerous advocates in Third World churches, it has been criticized by conservatives in the U.S. and Europe as a code phrase for Christian support of Marxist revolutionary movements. Under Potter's twelve-year stewardship, the W.C.C. has endorsed Palestinian rights and opposed U.S. policy in Central America. It has also made modest grants to guerrilla groups that helped topple the white-run government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and to those that are now trying to end South Africa's apartheid rule. Meanwhile, the W.C.C. has been only mildly critical of the Soviet invasion...