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...refer disparagingly to Henry Moyers as "a onetime cotton chopper, candy salesman and truck driver," and to say he was "never much of a moneymaker," is to bemean the virtues that built this great country. Unprivileged by today's standards, Henry worked hard at the jobs available to him, saved when he could, guided his sons masterfully, and today looks at every man with a level gaze. As an employee of Thiokol Chemical Corporation, he makes us proud of him and proud of his sons...
...White Knights of Mississippi pamphlet that catalogues forms of harassment to be used on suspected foes. Among other tactics, it recommends pouring sugar into gasoline tanks, dumping snakes, dead rats or decapitated chickens into mailboxes. To "obscure the deadly seriousness of our work," the circular suggested, the Knights should refer to such ploys as "Halloween pranks"-enough, in Klan verbiage, to make any night Dark Day in Weird Week of Month Sorrowful...
...confuse," said Castro. "Well, in a few days, we are going to read a document by el Compañero Ernesto Guevara that explains his absence during these past months." With that, Castro teased his audience by waving a sheet of paper. "This is the act to which I refer," he said. "Read it! Read it!" pleaded the crowd. "Not now," said Castro...
...Microbiologists refer to a single PPLO as a mycoplasma, then have trouble deciding whether the plural should be mycoplasmas or mycoplasmata...
When complaints do become specific, they usually refer to a particular experience, when a diagnosis was wrong or a student was in extreme danger. The Health Services is invariably able to discuss the difficulty in presise detail and explain the problem quite reasonably. But as Dr. Farnsworth points out, anyone is likely to blame even his family doctor for an error, and the frame of mind induced by a communal medical setup only tends to exaggerate the anger...