Word: referring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refer to the Berlin Wall as "ugly." Those who have seen the Warsaw Ghetto Wall would disagree with you. Built to German specifications, it cast a taller shadow and was uglier by far. It signified extermination for all those inside, as opposed to the Berlin one which merely restricts travel...
...publisher who once laced out a reporter for spending 6/ of his boss's money on a tram ride to an assignment-Packer told him to walk. Employees on his five newspapers (among them: the Sydney Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph), three magazines and two TV stations sometimes refer to him as "Gorgo" -after the mad monster of the movies...
...above statements also refer to the second criterion, the wide divergence of resources endowments between difficult countries. Japan has almost no natural resources. All the requirements of modern civilization, from food and fibre to coal and iron ore, must be imported. The costs of raw materials are higher for her than for the United States and Western Europe. Her capital resources are much smaller. The average American laborer, with ten times as much equipment to work with, produces six times as much as his Japanese counterpart. It is evident that Japanese industry cannot afford to pay the same wages...
Apparently your footnote is meant to refer to native-born persons of foreign or mixed parentage, a group often referred to, when combined with the foreign-born, as "foreign stock...
...town leaders recognize NAACP members as the true spokesmen of the Negro community. Instead they refer to a wealthier class of local Negroes; men who, by slightly superior education, have long been leaders in their isolated world. These people, of course, have as much to lose by integration as the most conservative white man. They band together with white leaders to keep segregation alive...