Word: refering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council decided to refer the problem to the bicycle commission...
...that they are a congenial lot. Their life seems to be one long slumber party as they giggle together, exchanging their joys and disappointments, their Marlboro Lights, their Isaac Mizrahi miniskirts. But the young women signed to Models Inc. are more fractious. They slap one another around; they refer to one another as bitches. At their kindest, they share beauty secrets: hemorrhoid cream, one girl magnanimously informs another, reduces puffiness around the eyes...
...lazy," she says. "I got excited aboutgoing to parties, boyfriends--it was compensationfor high school." She got "remarkably drunk, likesomething out of television." She even went to afinal club, once. Jain says, "We liked to refer toourselves as those chubby, naive girls thatgiggled...
Atherton says he sometimes heard non-Jewishstudents use ethnic slurs to refer to Jews...
Jacqueline Onassis never in any way compared herself with any of her successors in the White House, though she did once refer to one of them -- in sympathy, not in mischief -- as "a frightened little bunny who calls me almost every day." She was a willing but never gullible supporter of many a good cause. There was nothing she wouldn't do to move them along. (She drew the line at charity balls, though...