Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Better yet, Moussambani was being feted as a hero. The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that he exhibited the true Olympic spirit, not once using the phrase "ballsy hucksterism." The "Today" show did an interview; the Olympic Committee took him to lunch and put him on a postcard; Speedo bought him a uniform. The way I saw it, Moussambani was more than a hero; he was a name I could put on my expense account. So last Friday I offered to take him to 41, one of the most expensive restaurants in Sydney. He accepted, then called later...
...Games, and a sparkling late-winter sun shone all week. The Today show set up by the opera house to catch sunrises on the harbor and sunsets behind the bridge. Restaurants and hotels filled, athletes sprouted in multicolored warm-up suits, photo ops clogged the botanical gardens. The sunny phrase "no worries," a curious affirmation against doomfulness, was heard over and over, as was a new quintessentially Australian sentiment: " 'Ey, all we 'ave to do is beat Atlanta! Not a very...
Elliott, who went back to school and got a bachelor's degree in psychology at 39 and then a master's in social work at 44, is the kind of person that people mean when they use the phrase lifelong learner. And she's not alone--in an American Association of Retired Persons study published in July, 9 of 10 adults ages 50 and over said they wanted to actively seek out learning opportunities to keep current, grow personally and enjoy the simple pleasure of mastering something new. "We're increasingly becoming aware that learning is a prescription...
Bush himself seems conflicted about the heart of his message. "Reasonable change," the phrase chief strategist Karl Rove uses internally to describe what Bush is selling, is not a particularly revolutionary product. It lets you clean house without tearing it down. When Bush was running symbolically against Bill Clinton, the message seemed to work. Bush was a new kind of Republican--which meant he wasn't Newt Gingrich, and he wouldn't shut down the government or open the orphanages. And he exuded a freshness, optimism and tolerance that voters found appealing...
Should I change banks? Should I start using money orders? Then I was inspired by a phrase--"faceless bureaucracy." I realized that I could get rid of 5221 through 5225 by using them to pay bills to institutions so large that even the presence of thoroughly revolting angels would go unnoticed. Check No. 5221 went to Con Edison for my electric bill. The angels wafted toward one of my many telephone companies...