But no resonant phrase emerged to define yesterday's tragedy the way Roosevelt's radio-age words defined the World War II attack.
The trip took place months before the toys were available in stores or advertised on television, but it generated plenty of under-age word of mouth.
For a certain kind of reader, of a certain kind of age, the words "Kaye and Webbbb" are among the most delightful and evocative in the English language.
If we had been writing this article in an earlier age, the words royal commission would have appeared long before now.
By Michelle Legro September 30, 2009 Succumbing to the pressures of the Internet age, sixteen thousand words in the new Shorter Oxford English dictionary have lost their hyphens.
I'm aware that in this day and age my words and actions as an artist can be more powerful at times than any type of authority figure.
And later, in middle age: "The words would not come," as though she was just a conduit for writing, not a writer at all.
Unless you have a child of pre-school age, the words Mr Tumble, Something Special and Justin Fletcher may mean nothing to you.
Succumbing to the pressures of the Internet age, sixteen thousand words in the new Shorter Oxford English dictionary have lost their hyphens.
