Word: referring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local custom, the nation's second First Lady, a divorcee of 32, was duly ensconced in the presidential palace at Bogor. Cleaving loyally to the first First Lady, 31-year-old Fatmawati, all that the indignant clubwomen could do was to snub the interloper (TIME, Oct. 24) and refer to her with a sneer as "that woman in Bogor...
...with the truths of God's self-disclosure"; "he has my vote for possessing one of the most enormous brains in the world"; these statements--the first two by editors Charles Kegley and Robert Bretall and the third by the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University--all refer to Paul Johannes Tillich, Protestant theologian and one of Harvard's six University Professors...
From the list of prospective G.O.P. nominees to succeed Ike, you omitted one who I feel sure would carry more weight and inspire more confidence than any other. I refer to Herbert Hoover...
...breadth of his intellectual interests Levin certainly resembles the teachers who have influenced him most, Alfred North Whitehead and, especially, Irving Babbitt. Babbitt's encyclopdic crudition provoked his students to make bets before lectures as to how many different authors he would refer to in the course of an hour, a custom which would not be out of place in Levin's courses. But Levin is still only at the mid-point of his career. Influenced by some of the greatest teachers in the Harvard tradition, a strong influence himself on some of the brightest students exposed to that tradition...
...have extended from his back through his mind. The Call to Honour carries the De Gaulle story only to mid-1942, but the tone is set, and it is as annoying as it is undoubtedly sincere. Even a hero's worshipers must be embarrassed to hear him refer to his wartime broadcasts as a "priestly duty," and to meet the mock-modest estimate: "In the struggle for liberation the one who answered for everything was still, in the last resort, my poor self...