Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Says he: "By Jan. 1, you have to have the money, the structure, the policies. You have to be ready-bang!" If anything, he is seriously understating the case so far as his own campaign goes. It began "within weeks of Ronald Reagan's Inauguration," in the sarcastic phrase of his chief opponent, Ohio Senator John Glenn, 62, and already is humming with World Series efficiency. Take money, for example: Mondale collected so much so early that by Jan. 1, according to some calculations, he will have raised $9 million and spent $8 million. Bang...
...what does that cryptic phrase signify? Presumably, the athletic-looking fellow wearing it must either have inherited the valuable garment or have taken a leave of absence; for the explanation, let's go back to one of the Crimson's most miserable Saturdays, October...
...shook the world. After the week's events, the Communist empire could never be the same. The rest of the world could only look on with a catch in its heart, while thousands who must have known they could expect no outside aid chose, in Jefferson's phrase, to refresh the tree of liberty with blood...
...Wannsee, lolling in his beach chair at Luebeck, Albert Einstein figured out a new metric. It lies between Euclid's and Riemann's conceptions. It shows that gravity, electricity, magnetism, everything is a logical, not chance, part of the world. It enabled him last week to phrase in mathematical terms a theory by which "everything in the world" can be explained. Albert Einstein's theories have altered human existence not at all. But they have revolutionized human understanding of existence...
This time there was no simple sentence that meant "guilty" or "innocent," no terse phrase that decreed a statute "unconstitutional" or "constitutional." Yet the 1,000 words that Chief Justice Earl Warren read off to the crowded Supreme Court chamber one day last week released a powerful tide of law that will change the social face of the South before it has rolled to its farthest reach. A year ago the court decreed Negro segregation unconstitutional in public schools of the U.S. Now, after long consideration of pleas by Negro and Southern white lawyers, of advisory briefs from the Department...