Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, the damage was done, not least to the perceptions of tennis followers. Because she long ago admitted her bisexuality, and because she is not, in Billie Jean King's phrase, "a cutie pie," Navratilova, even without controversy breaking around her, sometimes appears to be playing in a segregated tournament all her own. Wimbledon seems to give her less Centre Court time than a player of her stature deserves. And U.S. television did not cover one of her matches complete until there were virtually no other women's matches it could show. As a result, many people...
...foreign venture, Jackson was hit by yet another storm over Black Separatist Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam movement, whom Jackson had repeatedly refused to disavow as a political supporter. In an openly anti-Semitic tirade, Farrakhan called Judaism a "dirty religion" (some listeners heard the phrase as "gutter religion"), accused Israel of "injustice, thievery, lying and deceit," and charged that the U.S. was engaged in a "criminal conspiracy" in its support of Israel...
Brezhnev's failing health was believed to be one reason for the sterile response to Reagan's first Kremlin missive. The exhaustive analysis of each phrase and word that the national-security experts made of Yuri Andropov's replies gave hope there was a personal heartbeat coming through. But when doctors hooked him up to the kidney-dialysis machine, they must have plugged in his pen too. His later responses seemed drained of life. The latest letter Reagan sent to Chernenko met with such a canned response that Reagan brought it up publicly two weeks...
...wilderness, earned her $3 a week and tried not to spend it all in one place. Then in 1965 things began to move fast. The merged Dayton Journal Herald offered her a twice-a-week column, and only three weeks later, the Newsday syndicate took her up. The phrase is exact; in journalistic terms, syndication is equivalent to ascending to heaven on a pillar of cloud. By the end of her first year, she had 36 papers, including Newsday, the Denver Post, the Minneapolis Star and the Atlanta Constitution. She began to be recognized in supermarkets...
...when the heat was off in their 18-hole playoff the following day, Norman waved back. Golf may be "a rude game," as Zoeller says, but golfers almost unfailingly display a grace under pressure that used to be the definition of heroism. From Yankee Stadium to Wimbledon, the phrase has pretty much abandoned sport...