Word: referred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is still too oblique or elliptical you may wish to refer to the ending of Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, when the lights go out in the radio studio during the Blitz and Joel McCrea calls into the mike, "Hello, America. Hang onto your lights. They're the only lights left in the world...
...journalists (or "alleged journalists") and as members of a small community, your use of public facts should be tempered by a sense of responsibility and by the recognition that what you print has consequences. When you refer to Elster (in centimeter-high letters, no less) as "the alleged rapist," and when you fill your front page with innuendo-laced drivel, you contribute to--nay, create--a presumption of guilt within the Harvard community which I believe will be impossible for Elster to counteract, should be actually turn out to be what the law currently presumes him to be: innocent. SCOTT...
...also said the two counts of battery andassault do not necessarily refer to violentactions...
Unhappiness seems to bind many of us too often. It's remarkable how many of our conversations here are what Georgetown socio-linguist Deborah Tannen would call "troubles talk," and what most of us fondly refer to as "venting." Even while attending the world's greatest university and being offered so many options and opportunities in every direction, many of us remain dissatisfied. Most Americans would give their right arms to enter this bastion of our misery...
Unlike the Prime Minister, I treasure the image of English men's clubs, full of dozing old gents who have names like Trevor and refer to their wives in tender moments as "old thing." I would be unhappy to see Jeeves and Bertie Wooster get on a first-name basis. I don't even want to think about the possibility that Jeeves, given the new atmosphere, may feel it necessary to confess tearfully that beneath his awesomely capable exterior he often feels himself lacking in self-esteem...