Word: refered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...QUARTER LINES OF TYPE, YOU HAVE ACHIEVED, I BELIEVE, THE WORLD'S RECORD FOR MAKING THE MOST ERRORS IN THE SMALLEST SPACE. I REFER TO TIME, OCT. 18, IN WHICH YOU STATE THAT IN A POLL OF 51 MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, PRESIDENT TRUMAN WAS THE ONLY MEMBER TO PREDICT HIS OWN VICTORY. YOU DESCRIBED MR. TRUMAN AS A "LIFETIME" MEMBER OF THE CLUB...
...years old; it is the youngest and most controversial branch of medicine. But psychiatry's solemn clinical lingo (see box) has been snatched up, misused and overused by the man in the street. Parents and teachers speak knowingly of "inferiority complexes." The comic strips and the movies refer familiarly to "frustrations" and "repressions." Psychiatry has been hotly debated and bitterly denounced by clerics (it seems to poach on their preserves), by Communists (it puts too much emphasis on the individual), by materialists (it claims that illness need not have a physical basis)-and even by some doctors...
...word of Dartmouth Coach "Tuss" McLaughry, this year's crop Indians is "the best team I've had up here." The last two words in the late refer, of course, to the hills of Hanover where boys are men and men are Indians...
Jessup continued: "The Soviet Government has revealed the weakness of its position by adopting what I may refer to as grasshopper tactics . . . Each leap ends on a blade of grass which turns out to be a flimsy pretext requiring a jump to a new but equally unstable position . . . The long process of proposal and counterproposal, of promises made and withdrawn, made it plain that good faith-that prerequisite to settlement-was absent from the Soviet mind...
...like aid, bar, ban, hit, quiz, curb, and other short verbs, it is a constant temptation to headline writers.) Since the days of famed Managing Editor O. K. Bovard, the P-D has had a ban against hit &run driver. It's bad taste, said O.K., to refer to a traffic tragedy in sporting terms...