Word: refering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your writer must have searched his soul and thesaurus long and hard before referring to Lyricist Alan Lerner's succession of therapists as a "pride of analysts." Pride of lions, yes; brace of quail, covey of partridges, indeed; but surely there can be no exact usage other than to refer to a group of my esteemed colleagues as a couch or complex of analysts. The term clutch has been proposed, but is clear evidence of resistance...
...Founding Fathers rejected a popular election for the presidency. ''It would be as unnatural to refer the choice . . . to the people," said Virginia's George Mason, "as it would to refer a trial of colours to a blind man." The Constitutional Convention determined to put the choice in the hands of an elite, struck upon a system of electors that was a compromise between big and small states. Each state would "appoint" a number of electors equal to its total Congressmen and Senators. If no presidential candidate won a clear majority from the electors, the contest would...
Second, it is safe to assume that one could trace the development of the Peace Corps and discover hundreds of originators. To save controversy, I like to refer to a 1910 essay by William James entitled The Moral Equivalent of War. This was followed in 1926 by a delightful story by Richard J. Walsh called When the Earth Trembled. For that matter, one can find traces of the idea in the tenth chapter of Luke...
Candidate Nixon claims that America is the strongest nation in the world. Candidate Kennedy states that America may well not be the strongest, that we have some work to do. To Mr. Nixon I refer some time-honored advice from St. Paul: "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall...
...ambiguities of the Japanese language often led to a heavy reliance on raw symbols and intuitive expressions than on an attempt at clear articulation . This has given culture an excessicely quality but has exalted direct acts on intuition at the expense of coherent If parliamentarianism is meant to refer discussion of concrete issues in a patient to arrive at solutions, this characteristic be regarded as the unfortunate antithesis Parliamentarianism. This fact has made the of parliamentary democracy a painfully task in Japan. Herein lies, we believe, problem of Japanese politics today, and whenever we turn to the analysis of events...