Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been fascinated by a phrase that you have used in your writings and that translates into English as good taste. I wonder what you mean by that...
University lawyers and financial aid officials are now at work interpreting the phrase "defined principles of professional judgment...
...sentiment and well-tended lawns, is less to be derided on Saturday Night Live than emulated. Four years ago, Clinton could not have been sure that when he recited part of the Pledge of Allegiance in his speech the audience would spontaneously join in and finish the final phrase with...
...memories of 1976, when the Democrats met in New York to nominate another Southern Governor, Jimmy Carter, who went on to win, while the city, still on the brink of bankruptcy, got a huge lift in morale out of its successful performance as host. As some New Yorkers might phrase it in the native tongue, they should both be so lucky twice. (See related stories beginning on page...
...that within the next hundred years (I'm giving the world time for setbacks and myself time to be out of the betting game, just in case I lose this one), nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- "citizen of the world" -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st...