Word: referring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate cut loose in 1966 with the sterile race baiting that has studded political rhetoric in the South since Reconstruction. The new tone was heralded by Wallace's painful struggle to enunciate the word Negro, as prescribed by Webster's: not once in the campaign did he refer publicly to the "nigra...
Public housing has brought the poor more eviction notices than new apartments, and slum dwellers scornfully refer to urban renewal as "urban removal." While Washington lavishes $18 billion a year on a galaxy of welfare programs-to which state and local governments and private philanthropies add another $15 billion-only the crumbs reach the bottom of the heap...
Freshman advisors echoed many of to select an upperclassman advisor from favoring the HUC's first proposal. Senior advisors Christopher Wadsworth '62, Seamus P. Malin '62, and James E. Thomas agreed that upperclassmen can and already do perform valuable advising functions. They said that they already refer a number of specific advising problems to undergraduates they know in the Houses...
...Methodists-than they do to the Utah Mormons, even though relations between the two denominations are warmer than they used to be. Members of the Reorganized Saints' district in Utah are no longer shunned as apostates by Mormons, while spokesmen for the two churches now politely refer to their differences as problems of doctrinal interpretation rather than of heresy...
...landmarks from the bulldozer-including, it is hoped, Manhattan's splendid old Metropolitan Opera House, which last week saw its last regular performance amid a flood of nostalgia and champagne. Many younger communities tend to adopt the social traditions of the older centers; qualified Los Angelenos frequently refer to themselves as "fourth" or "fifth" generation Californians in their social announcements. Sometimes this leads to an attempt at creating instant age; at ceremonies marking the opening of its original library building, U.C.L.A. authorities issued a statement that it was hereby declared "traditional" never to step on the seal embedded...