Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hearst papers, points of style may be changed between editions by a peremptory wire from the Chief. When Hearst first turned against the New Deal, Hearstlings were ordered to refer to it as the Raw Deal. Some zealous copyreaders even changed the phrase in New Dealers' speeches in praise of the Administration. And when W.R.H. once got mad at Stanford University (it refused to fire a professor he suspected of Communism), and banned its name from his papers, his sport editors went grey trying to fit such substitutes as "Men from Palo Alto" into headlines...
...Michigan, four-term Congressman Bartel J. Jonkman (pronounced Yonkman) was defeated in the week's biggest upset. A bitter-end G.O.P. isolationist who liked to refer to ERP as "Burp," Jonkman had always received most of the Dutch vote in the fifth district's "Little Netherlands." This year he did not bother to do much campaigning. His opponent, Gerald R. Ford Jr., 35, did. A Grand Rapids lawyer and onetime University of Michigan football star, Ford had hundreds of volunteers pushing doorbells for him, time & again dared Jonkman to debate his foreign-policy stand. Jonkman refused. Back-slapping...
...Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC), in particular, was not performing as well as Administrator Hoffman would like. It was staffed by civil servants who had to refer every decision back to their governments. When it came to cracking down on their own countries' needs, individuals on OEEC's committees could never forget their nationalities. In an Embassy press conference, Hoffman told reporters: "I don't think we have yet seen evidence of the coordination necessary for success. The European nations still have a long...
Concluded the gloomy Dane: "The question is ... whether to employ the expensive treatment at mental hospitals, or preferably, to refer the patients to the less expensive public temperance institutions, or to leave them entirely without treatment. The figures of this study rather support this last suggestion...
...through your letter you refer to fascism, stating that your party is antifascist. Who are you kidding? There are no bigger fascists than the Communists. The only difference between Stalin and Hitler is that Stalin went Hitler one better . . . It was the Communist Party that joined hands with the Nazis to break up the Socialist Party and the trade union movement in Germany . . . Don't try to propagandize people who know the score...