Word: referring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the U.S. Senate refer to one another as gentlemen. But, what with the industrial revolution, the westering course of empire and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, the Senate has seen the virtual extinction of gentlemen in the 19th-century sense of the word. Most of the Senate's gentlemen (and there are some distinguished ones) were made, not born. One of the last Senators to be born an esquire, Burnet Rhett Maybank, 55, died last week of a heart attack...
...refer to the Aug. 2 article . . . dealing with my recent remarks in Congress on the subject of the Iron Curtain churchmen who are delegates to the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Evanston, Ill. . . . My speech was given as an answer to the State Department press release, and not the reverse, as your article would seem to indicate ... I have no fear of subversion from the Czechoslovak and Hungarian members [but] I question their ability to further resist the infiltration of the churches in their own lands even assuming [that] Communist control ... is not already complete...
...Westerner to visit a Burmese in shorts or a tropical shirt; the Burmese, colonial subjects of Britain until 1948, are sensitive about Westerners who appear to take them for granted. Yet the proper Burmese are remarkably free with their language: Burmese women will astonish Westerners with vivid, physical references to males they do not like; Prime Minister U Nu, a Buddhist layman of unusual piety, will casually refer to Communists as "Kwe-Ma-Tha," meaning "dog-bitch-sons...
...idealism such as that of T. E. and his brothers that old men refer when they look back on the vanished world of their youth. But even they would agree that the Lawrence brothers pushed it to a limit where it became almost inhuman-divorced from instinct and passion, too cold for natural comfort, almost too good to be true. It gave T. E., says Sir Winston Churchill in a superb preface to the Home Letters, "that touch of genius which everyone recognizes and no one can define." but simultaneously it placed its possessor beyond the pale. For, says Churchill...
...Arkansas' Democratic J. William Fulbright had tried to buttress Flanders' generalized motion with a specific six-count amendment, which included the old charge that Joe had shaken down Lustron Corp. to collect a $10,000 fee for writing a housing booklet. Republican Leader William Knowland moved to refer the censure motion to a select committee of three Republicans and three Democrats...