Word: referring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persons (or, some say, one out of ten) will spend part of his life in a mental hospital, famed Psychiatrist William C. Menninger came out with a sweeping statistic of his own last week. He told the National Association for Mental Health: "Even the most startling of these figures . . . refer only to extreme cases of mental disorder. [They] overlook the common, everyday emotional disturbances which can be as upsetting and incapacitating as many of the physical illnesses. When we take these into account, the toll of mental ill health must be reckoned as one in one, for there...
...adequately summed up by an assistant professor of chemistry at Penn State. "The restricted field of vision for presentations on the blackboard would be a handicap for one, like myself," he said, "who desires to give material on board A, go on similarly to board B, and then refer back to board A while considering board...
Despite the many possibilities for disagreement between the University's psychiatrists and the administrative officers, both groups refer with pleasure to their good relationship with the other...
...opponents merely smile cynically when they talk about Vellucci and the school committee, however. They refer inevitably to a certain "Family Night" in 1953 when the committee members voted several positions in the school system to their relatives. "But none of them were my relatives," Vellucci insists, "and they wese all highly qualified men with masters and doctors degrees...
Such treatment was rougher than Liberace has received at the hands of most U.S. newssheets-even the toughest Americans have been softened by personal contact with the Liberace charm-and he momentarily lost his smile. "To mention Momism, to refer to my love for my mother as if it were Communism or Naziism, is something I can't imagine anyone in his right mind would do," he snapped. Then recovering his benign calm. Liberace purred: "Everyone has to expect a certain number of nonbelievers, and even enemies. I suppose that's why they shot Abraham Lincoln and crucified...