Word: refering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
GUMMIDGE: Exactly. If you are poor, I refer to you as disadvantaged; if you live in a slum, you are in a culturally deprived environment...
LOGOS: Splendid. How would you refer to a priest disagreeing with a minister...
...Byrd Machine (its supporters refer to it as The Organization) has shown remarkable durability over the past 40 years. It has changed a little bit--maybe more--but it keeps on winning. The success of the Machine was predicated on a low voter turnout. That meant not only discouraging Negroes from voting, but also many poor whites. There have never been any outright bars to the ballot in Virginia, but intricate laws concerning residence requirements and an ingeniously devised web of poll taxes accomplished the same objective in a more sutble way. The electorate was kept within manageably limits...
...found the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, recognized as the most thorough and modern operation of its kind. The volunteers on its staff, who have been trained by professionals, answer the agonized phone calls that flood in with sympathetic attention, assess the imminence of a suicidal act, and refer callers to institutions for help...
...skeptical of "free world" rhetoric. But, as Scheer said in his speech at the demonstration, those who employ that rhetoric have a duty to be consistent. It was not courteous to refer to Krushchev as "the butcher of Budapest." But if Krushchev was the butcher of Budapest then McNamara and Johnson are the butchers of Vietnam. If my hypothetical Moscow U. students would have been profoundly in order "physically confronting" Krushchev, then 800 Harvard students were profoundly in order in physically confronting McNamara. Talk of "courtesy" is in the worst taste when butchery is the issue...