Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Golly, no! You'd better ask me what I mean. Then I'll tell you I refer to the United States of Africa. Well, don't knock your head off. It's not my idea, anyway. It's General Smuts...
...Australia. From sick Allied hearts, a wave of hope rose. The wave became a flood, a kind of prayerful madness. Army censors in Australia, before announcement of his presence was permitted, admonished those in the know not to speak the name MacArthur aloud, to say he if they must refer to him. Statesmen, the press, plain men everywhere cried that MacArthur would put an end to retreats; MacArthur would take the offensive; MacArthur was the man who could...
...motivated by a high and common ideal, is taking care that his opinions be guided by this common interest. But this should not blind us to the fact that three short months ago we were still in the throes of a war debate in which it was common to refer to your opponent as a traitor, a Nazi, or a war-monger...
...material aspects of Harvard are concerned, Robert Benchley (the senior) or whoever did the technical work on the problem, succeeds fairly well. There are no burly football players nonchalantly sporting their "H's." No shots of the "campus," to which the players habitually refer, are shown. The general atmosphere is one of restraint and luxury, with an understandable accent on luxury...
...louse possesses qualities of dogged persistence and patient diligence which arouse that admiration, thinly masked by a pretense of loathing, which men similarly feel for competing races whom they fear, and, therefore, persecute. (We refer to the "Blond Aryan" complex. . . .) -Hans Zinsser: Rats, Lice and History...