Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...move in as President Truman's personal representative, twist arms and bang more heads together than could any one of the compartmentalized czars of World War II days. Tall, handsome Stu Symington has a highly developed knack for getting along with people. Friend & foe agree that the phrase that best fits him is "smart operator." He is impetuous, forceful, dedicated; a doer rather than a thinker; a man adept at brain-picking. He made a comfortable fortune and a reputation as an administrator in industry (Emerson Electric), came to Washington as Truman's Surplus Property chief...
...troops had met crushing defeat and perhaps faced annihilation, the disaster and its implications became the subject of endless shocked conversations. Some of them were almost monosyllabic: men meeting on the street sometimes simply stared at each other and then voiced the week's most oft-repeated phrase-"It looks bad." This silence marked many men who had fought in World War II. Said a Purple Heart veteran in Des Moines: "I quit turning on my radio-I don't want to hear the news." Through all the talk there were overtones not of fear but of futility...
...beginning of the term students face the choice of either signing up for bell duty or for "waiting on." Girls who take bells spend several hours a week at the bell desk near the front door of each dormitory. Cabot Hall" or correspondingly appropriate phrase each time they answer the phone. They are plagued by women wanting baby-sitters and boys looking for blind-dates, but are not allowed to help the latter...
...fourth leader rejects the insinuation, by a Czech correspondent, that Britain is in a complete funk because its citizens usually answer the question, . "How are you?" with, "It could be worse." The Times explains that the phrase is not a sign of discouragement at all. Fully expanded, it means: " 'Here am I, a man like other men, with rather more health and rather less money than most-or the other way round-neither expecting nor deserving the smile of fortune. Income tax is nine shillings in the pound; there is a depression approaching from the Azores; and I have...
...committee will also ask the Dean's Office to clarify the phrase "premises of undergraduate organizations" which appears in a ruling relating to parieal rules...