Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their arms in exasperation, she never lost faith. The tales about John Barrymore are innumerable--his wildly confident impetuousness, his financial extravagances, the alcoholism that haunted him from the age of 14 onwards, and his legendary love life. Married, he said, "three and a half times," he used to refer to the period of his second marriage with the comment: "When archaeologists discover the missing arms of the Venus de Milo, they will find that she was wearing boxing gloves...
...independents will surface in Congress. Exploratory House hearings will begin on a bill that would effectively abolish newer forms of communications competition. Officially, the bill is called the Consumer Communications Reform Act. But because it seems so heavily weighted in favor of the telephone establishment, critics refer to it as the "Bell Bill" or, worse, the "Monopoly Protection...
...lies behind the soft voice and gentle manners. The Carter strategy is to attack Ford's record -mainly on the issues of inflation, jobs and leadership-but very carefully to avoid any knocks at the presidency. This poses an additional bit of tactical trivia for Carter: how to refer to his opponent. Calling him "Mr. President" might seem too deferential. A simple "Mr. Ford," on the other hand, might be a trifle patronizing. As the debate got closer, the possibility of just saying "President Ford" was favored...
...their feet for what it could be: a foothold on the universe. Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, early Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor-for close to 40 years, the line of inspired Southern writers seemed inexhaustible. Critics sometimes refer to this outpouring as the Southern literary renaissance. It is a misnomer, for nothing like that flow of writing had occurred in the region before. For American readers, it transformed the South, the literary South at least, into some sort of national possession, a province of the imagination like Camelot...
...essay on the CBS Evening News. With his "somewhat forbidding Scandinavian manner" (as he has described it) and "a restraint that spells stuffiness to a lot of people," he has delivered so many thousand editorials, sermonets and sit-down comedy routines that the unkind younger generation has begun to refer to him as Eric Everyside...