Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negro subjects speak a language called Luganda and will refer to him in properly deferential terms. They will not say he sleeps but that he is "just resting." For them, he will not eat but will be "among the baskets...
...sacred cows obstructed the editors' free range. The Cydoner's Colonel Blimp was one General Fivestars, whose troops were always getting lost. Cydoner's enlisted men did not hesitate to refer to "laws, as amended by Congress to make officers gentlemen...
...Some thought this might refer to gas. The Nazis, however, have hitherto held that gas warfare is unpractical, would harm them as much as the enemy...
...service are what the politicians love to refer to as "the flower of American manhood." Maybe we are; however, at the moment I do not feel much like a flower. . . . We are pretty well able to take care of ourselves and if not we at least don't want Senator Bilgewater and Congressman Bafflebrain telling us when we can have a drink...
While ignoring the United States except for one vague reference to President Roosevelt, Hitler did refer to Churchill as a "military idiot," thus revealing what, Kohn termed his biggest weakness, an underestimation of his adversaries "common to all megalomaniacs...