Word: references
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Degrees of Enthusiasm. Was he worried about the verbal pop bottles shattering around him? Replied Ike: "I refer you to the second term of President Washington, and you look to see what the papers said about him,* and when I compare the weak, inconsequential things they say about me compared to what they say about the man who I think is the greatest human the English-speaking race has produced, then I can be quite philosophical about...
...world, and of all those countries of Asia and Africa that have been nurtured in the noble and fruitful ways of the common law." He went on to evoke and delineate "a doctrine which we both share with a wider community even than that of the common law ... I refer to the doctrine of the law of nature...
...Senate tossed the parliamentary puzzle-Rule 14 or Rule 25?-to Vice President Richard Nixon. Ruled Nixon, following a line laid out by New Jersey's scholarly Republican Clifford Case: since the precedents were unclear, it was up to the Senate to decide by vote whether to refer the bill to committee or place it directly on the calendar...
...once safe from being overheard, would deliver lectures as he had in pre-Communist days. Though there were student spies ("I could always tell," says one facultyman. "They took notes at the wrong times"), teachers and students found subtle ways of communicating. Says a historian: "If I had to refer to the 'Soviet liberation of Poland,' for example, I would inject a tiny pause or hesitation in my voice before and after the expression. No change of tone-just these little pauses. That meant irony, and every one of my students knew...
Prejudice, distrust and intolerance lurk everywhere like the lions and leopards in the still dark forests, between the educated and uneducated, between tribe and tribe, between black, white and Asian. Proud white settlers in Rhodesia, who now consider themselves more African than European, refer contemptuously to their advanced black partners as "Fags," short for Federated African Gentlemen. The Moslem Fulani of Nigeria's north consider the energetic Ibos of the nationalistic, Christian and pagan east no better than barbarians...