Word: referring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point was really an elaboration of the previous one. It was a criticism of a formalistic approach to negotiations which confuses negotiating techniques with purpose. My argument was that we should stop using slogans like compromise, flexibility or rigidity and debate the substance of the program to which they refer...
Those Arkansas Ozark daddies didn't invent hunkering. The yogi did, centuries ago. They refer to the posture as utkea sana...
Nations at odds often share with taunting children and shrewish wives an inspired instinct for the stinging epithet that penetrates and festers. Arab maps sometimes refer to Israel as "Jewish Occupied Palestine." Russians in the U.N. call Nationalist China delegates the "representatives of the Kuomintang." And for some twelve years since the acrimonious partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Pakistani press, with considered malice and conscientious glee, has called India "Bharat" and referred to Indians as "Bharatis...
...suffered a sea change in being transplanted from Africa. Among other things, he acquired the horns and trident of the Christian devil, and a wife (to keep him more content). Exú's power for death and destruction is unquestioned by thousands of believers, who rarely refer to him by name. They call him simply O Compadre (The Companion...
...Eating at the cafeteria is OUT; eating at the Metropolitan Club is IN, but it is inconceivable to refer to it as the Metropolitan instead of The Club. ¶Getting off the elevator at the fifth floor (where the Secretary of State's office is located) is IN; it does not matter if you work there...