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...order together were gone. The Empire had become a matter of history; the established Protestant Church of England had become an irrelevance; and any deference to hierarchy had long been lost in the slaughterhouse of the Western front in World War I, where British soldiers were, in the phrase their German counterparts coined, "lions led by donkeys...
...Minister Walter Scheel. He brought home from Moscow two red-bound leather volumes containing a renunciation-of-force treaty between West Germany and the Soviet Union that he and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had initialed only a few hours earlier. Perhaps unconsciously, Scheel spoke of accord in a phrase reminiscent of Bismarck's famed injunction to keep the line open to St. Petersburg, then Imperial Russia's capital. Said Scheel: "We have opened a gate to the East...
...report isn't perfect. The phrase "Jihadization" is problematic, and has already alienated some of the Muslim-American leaders who should be included in this conversation. Nor is it all new. Some of these points have been made before by respected counterterrorism scholars. But the fact that it came from a government organization, not a think tank, and that it struggles mightily not to dumb down its content, makes it exceptional...
...creating the most successful game show in TV history, Wheel of Fortune. As usual, his involvement with the show was total; friends used to tell of being at dinner parties with Merv, where he'd stop the conversation whenever he heard a particular clich? or bon mot - another hidden phrase for Wheel of Fortune, he'd exclaim. When he died, he was in the midst of creating a new game show, Crosswords...
...Michael Sullivan said in an interview last week that his family has built good-will among Cambridge voters because of its history of “responsiveness to our constituents,” and that the phrase “Sullivan service” has become a part of the local political vocabulary...