Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Lake Success, appeasement was in the air. The British were in a mood to make a deal, and their phrase for it was "buffer state." Their hope was that the Chinese Reds could be persuaded to withdraw peacefully to the Manchurian border, provided that a large adjoining strip of North Korea was made into a neutral zone, administered, presumably, by the United Nations...
...Senatore, at 20, product of the teeming tenements and slums, is what people mean by the phrase "juvenile delinquent." In a quiet Brooklyn courtroom last week, Joe tried to tell why he and his buddies talked tough, acted tough and got tough inside. Judge Samuel Leibowitz had asked Joe, leader of a South Brooklyn gang, if he had anything to say before sentence was passed on a buddy, Anthony
Unruffled Manner. "Foreign correspondents," one fourth leader observes, "often attribute the content of a dispatch to 'usually well-informed circles,' and there is something very striking about the phrase. The choice of adverb is peculiarly pregnant, contriving as it does simultaneously to affirm faith and to adumbrate doubt. It implies that the correspondent has found these circles to be reliable in the past, but it sounds at the same time a note of caution. 'You know what these foreigners are,' it seems to say; 'don't blame me if they've got hold...
...Members must be students in Harvard University." This rule, proposed by the Dean and the faculty committee eliminates the phrase "or Radcliffe College" from the original council suggestion of last spring. Why take out Radcliffe? Harvard men aren't mature enough to handle the problem of women in men's clubs or mature enough to select their own membership? Of course they are. The evidence of the Harvard organizations that work closely with counterparts at Radcliffe shows this. But even if the point were debatable, consistency with the theory of self-reliance would demand that the men be given...
...last phrase, probably the most anticlimactic periodic sentence in American literature, is engraved on Gothic walls and Yalemen hearts. "By God, that really means something here," says a professor who switched recently from another college. "I thought it was a gag until I saw it in stone. It is enormously strong as a symbol...