Word: referring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continued to write poetry, but then "one day in the country, while I was recovering from an illness, I began to write down Mary Poppins. I have an idea that I've been writing her all my life along with my poetry, because she and the poetry refer to each other. My sister says I used to tell her stories about Mary Poppins as a child, but I deny that." She refuses to say, or perhaps doesn't know, just where the idea came from. But the books were popular from their first appearance in 1934. Their author has since...
...refer disparagingly to Henry Moyers as "a onetime cotton chopper, candy salesman and truck driver," and to say he was "never much of a moneymaker," is to bemean the virtues that built this great country. Unprivileged by today's standards, Henry worked hard at the jobs available to him, saved when he could, guided his sons masterfully, and today looks at every man with a level gaze. As an employee of Thiokol Chemical Corporation, he makes us proud of him and proud of his sons...
...White Knights of Mississippi pamphlet that catalogues forms of harassment to be used on suspected foes. Among other tactics, it recommends pouring sugar into gasoline tanks, dumping snakes, dead rats or decapitated chickens into mailboxes. To "obscure the deadly seriousness of our work," the circular suggested, the Knights should refer to such ploys as "Halloween pranks"-enough, in Klan verbiage, to make any night Dark Day in Weird Week of Month Sorrowful...
...confuse," said Castro. "Well, in a few days, we are going to read a document by el Compañero Ernesto Guevara that explains his absence during these past months." With that, Castro teased his audience by waving a sheet of paper. "This is the act to which I refer," he said. "Read it! Read it!" pleaded the crowd. "Not now," said Castro...
...Microbiologists refer to a single PPLO as a mycoplasma, then have trouble deciding whether the plural should be mycoplasmas or mycoplasmata...