Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last Tuesday, they found a most attentive listener in the President. One of the Congressmen claimed the Moscow and antiwar issues could "kill Clinton." The very next day Bush was on the King show demanding that his opponent come clean about his trip to the U.S.S.R. In a phrase heavy with innuendo, the President added, "I don't want to tell you what I really think, because I don't have the facts . . . but to go to Moscow one year after Russia crushed Czechoslovakia, not remember who you saw . . . I really think the answer is, level with the American people...
David had kept his head, if one could use so inappropriate a phrase, while all the humans around him were in a state of shock. There were some compensations in being a Legal Person (Nonhuman). Though David could not know love, neither could he know fear. He would continue to think logically, even to the edge of doom...
Back to the Cambridge bank. The clerk there dialed a telephone number, uttered a few passwords and then returned to tell me that I had an "invalid" Social Security number. By this time, I'd forgotten about the original error in my license, but I was captivated by the phrase, "invalid Social Security number." The woman refused to permit me to open an account. Get this: A bank, of all places, declined to accept my $3,000 because I had "an invalid Social Security number...
...know" is a very common phrase used to describe the team's second half problems...
...never broke the laws of my country." Only in a debate before the New York primary was Clinton pressed on whether he had ever used drugs abroad. The answer: a confession that he had taken a puff at Oxford, coupled with that now famous -- and widely doubted -- exculpatory phrase "I didn't inhale...