Word: refering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...university president did not refer to his controversial comments on women and science until prompted to do so by a question that came about an hour into the ninety minute-long meeting...
...beauty who has been engaged for 18 months and the senior who “forgot to mention” she had a boyfriend. Then there was the young woman who abruptly stopped returning my calls and e-mails and the one who insisted that I not refer to our trips to the movies as “going out” or “dates.” And I must not neglect the girl who said—and this is a direct quote—“I’m not ready to date...
...biblical.” Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck, a professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, ventured into her House’s courtyard last week in the dead of night to erect a solitary mini-gate she had created from scratch. My mother, meanwhile, refuses to refer to the display by any name other than “The Shower Curtains...
...extremely supportive of attempts to generate discussion on the underrepresentation of women in any field of study,” Hooven explains, choosing her words carefully. “We must explore all reasonable hypotheses, whether they refer to biological or cultural theories...
...typical of Henry Grunwald's unyielding honesty and his precise mind that he disapproved of using the words "passed away" to refer to someone who has died. So I will honor him in reporting what is sad news in the unequivocal language he would have insisted upon. Henry Anatole Grunwald, one of the most distinguished managing editors in TIME's history and for decades a pre-eminent figure in American journalism, died last week. He was 82 and in his later years had faced a number of difficulties, which, being Henry, he treated as opportunities. Last year he suffered...