Word: referred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...target of Chun's current and most ambitious crusade is what many Koreans call saba-saba, (or cheung tak). They refer to the endemic tissue of favoritism, cronyism and influence peddling that pervades the country's business and political life. Chun kicked off the drive at the opening of the newly elected National Assembly earlier this month, where he denounced politicians for "engaging in cunning maneuvers to curry favor with voters." He also made sure that members of his Cabinet, including Prime Minister Nam Duck Woo, were the first to take the patriotic pledge...
SOMETIMES I THINK I'm crazy when I hear the Fl Salvadorean and U.S. governments deny killings by the National Guard." Anne Nelson, a writer for The Nation says, "They say the violence didn't happen, and I say it did. I have to refer constantly to my memories of last October--peasants' bodies in fields, militarymen shooting unarmed peasants and placing guns in their hands--or else I too could be convinced...
Yamani did not refer in his speech to President Reagan's recent decision to sell AWACS surveillance aircraft and of fensive weaponry to Saudi Arabia--an action Israeli officials have strongly criticized--but lauded the sales when some members of the audience of 1000 quizzed him alterwards, Kojm said...
...late Vladimir Nabokov will always be for me the epitome of the third stage of name-dropping. Vlad was always a sweet man, with more taste and savoir faire than anyone I'll ever meet, but he could never refer to anyone without calling him "my dear friend." "My dear friend Phyllis Schlafly just dropped in," he once told me. Another time--this was with John Updike at the Algonquin--Volodya turned to me and, with his mouth still full of mashed potatoes, whispered into my ear, "Reminds me of the way my very, very, very dear friend Rusty Staub...
...fourth level of name-dropping, the afflicted person has pretty well crossed the line beyond which there is no rehabilitation. He will drop names until he drops; he will never get through a sentence without a gratuitous reference to a celebrity of his acquaintance. For by the fourth stage, the name-dropper's sense of propriety and modesty has disintegrated to the point that he refers to his friends by their first names alone. I know these people so well, the fourth-stage dropper says, that it would be unnatural for me to refer to them by their full name...