Word: referring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which on March 7, 1457, fined him 200 lire and sentenced him to six months in prison. The sentence was not particularly harsh, for Crivelli, it seems, had abducted a married lady named Tarsia and kept her hidden in his brother's house for months. The court records refer to him as a painter, and historians think that he may have been about 25 at the time. But aside from this adventure in "abduction, adultery and concubinage," the few scraps known about Crivelli indicate a perfectly respectable life...
...handicapping forms such as schizophrenia) in the U.S.S.R. as in the West. But there are many fewer patients in mental hospitals at any one time. Reason: the Russians are taking psychiatry to the patients at the street-corner level. They expect family physicians to make diagnoses and to refer patients to local clinics, where psychiatrists are on hand to give intensive treatment with drugs and psychotherapy on an outpatient basis...
...Greeks for a large part of the trouble. The church fathers leaned heavily on Greek metaphysics and produced a natural theology that attempted to prove logically the existence of God and to define his nature. For Protestants at least, Garnett thinks, science has swept away such metaphysics; instead, they refer to God in the Biblical language of faith. But they recognize at the same time "that these Biblical concepts and statements cannot be taken literally as if they were pure history and science. They are symbols and their meaning lies deeper." The result is that "the plain man is bewildered...
...ready to drop or land paratroops at various airdromes to prepare a seizure of power,'' he warned. "As soon as the sirens sound, go there by foot or by car to convince the misled soldiers of their profound error." Later, in an evening that Parisians already refer to as La Nuit Folle (Mad Night), Minister of Culture Andre (Man's Fate) Malraux delivered a stirring address to an unlikely crowd of Resistance veterans, movie starlets, beatniks and the sports-car set up from St.-Tropez. They all struggled into ill-fitting boots and khaki uniforms as members...
...They filed a brief charging the Res with "deliberate and gross" violations of law that did "many millions of dollars of harm" to thousands of stockholders, urged the SEC to expel both men from the exchange and revoke their broker-dealer licenses. After further hearings, the SEC can also refer the case to the Justice Department, for criminal prosecution...