Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it came to the roof of Harvard's Science Center yesterday, the operational phrase was, "When it rains, it pours...
Keyworth objected to the press's use of the phrase Star Wars to describe what he called the President's new defensive concept. Admitting "the American people are not likely to enthusiastically support the placement of nuclear weapons in space," he urged the assembled scientists to start thinking instead about ways to get their share of the huge research-and-development money involved in putting laser beams in space. In Los Alamos, weapons are bread and butter...
...Saigon was also dismayed by critical press reporting. A York of correspondents, including David Halberstam of the New York Times who won a Pulitzer Prize), sided with junior combat officers who were convinced that Saigon headquarters was too optimistic in its reports to Washington. In Halberstam's phrase, these correspondents became "the other enemy" to Saigon's brass. This animosity lingers. It will surface again when General William Westmoreland's $120 million libel suit against CBS comes to trial...
...collegiate phrase, "highly sought after." The recruiting process provided Southern Author Willie Morris a hefty new book on sports and sociology, well titled The Courting of Marcus Dupree. U.C.L.A. brought Marcus to Los Angeles to visit the mayor and make the acquaintance of Farrah Fawcett and Cheryl Ladd. The University of Oklahoma invited him to place a telephone call from an airplane. "They say I'm 41,000 feet in the air somewhere over Oklahoma," Dupree, full of wonder, told his high school coach. "It seems like I'm almost to the moon...
...Falstaff s touch, too, for the imposing phrase of self-deprecation: "Acting," he said in 1946, "is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing." Like so many luminaries of his generation, he viewed acting as a job from which one should never take a vacation; in 63 years he appeared in more than 180 stage productions, 62 movies and at least a score of TV plays. Through his early years he was the middle-class Everyman, shuffling toward archetype with good will and capacious common sense. But as he aged, his characters turned imperious...