Word: refering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the scalp, and they are dress in oversized workpants, thin red suspenders and hobnailed, steel-toed boots costing about$10 and known as "cherry reds." The skinheads are lineal descendants of the rockers-with an added touch of mindless savagery. When their hair grows a frifle longer, they refer to themselves as suedeheads. Skins or suedes, they specialize in terrorizing such menacing types as hippies and homosexuals, Pakistani immigrants and little old ladies. "Hairies," those with long hair or hippie-style clothing, are their particular enemies, but they are quite happy to break up a synagogue, a Chinese...
SEALE: I don't think there's going to be a race war. Here in the streets, in what many prisoners refer to as the so-called free world out here, we can see that young white middle class people are opposing the establishment in the manner that black people have...
...your Gunter Grass cover story [April 13], you refer to former West German Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss as having once been a member of the Nazi party. Strauss was never a member of the Nazi party. On the contrary, Strauss's father, a butcher, was an outspoken anti-Nazi. As for Strauss himself, he was drafted into the army, and his repeated criticism of Hitler's war caused him no end of trouble. At war's end, having been cleared of any Nazi connections by the American occupation forces, he was made a civilian administrative official...
...down the first East bloc revolt against Communism. In 1968 his forces put an end to Czechoslovakia's "Springtime of Freedom," and he personally visited Prague the following year to oversee the removal of Reformer Alexander Dubcek from the leadership of the party. Czechoslovaks bitterly refer to the bullet-pocked facade of Prague's National Museum as "a fresco a la Grechko...
...gruesome outpouring of hate. These vengeful murders and two other events in Fascism's twilight-Mussolini's ouster as Premier by his own Grand Council, and Italy's switch to the Allied side-ensured that il Duce would be remembered with a certain sympathy. Today Italians refer quite easily to Mussolini, not by name but as "quello" (that one) or "lui" (he), and the references are often flattering...