Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts legislature appeared to endorse this standard when it voted on July 18 to prohibit abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy unless the woman's life is in danger. The doctors' attorneys also appear to accept this definition and in the motions carefully refer to the involved fetuses as "alleged human bodies...
...McCarthy fever. But with the notable exception of Daniel Ellsberg, the Administration was not out to get those who, in the early cold war, were derisively called eggheads. The Vice President's bark was reserved for TV, newspaper and magazine journalists, a motley lot whom intellectuals sometimes refer to as middlebrows...
Every morning last week, the President of the United States was driven into the capital from his suburban Alexandria, Va., home along with the stream of commuters who daily turn Interstate 95 into what Washingtonians sometimes grumpily refer to as "the world's longest parking lot." Preceded by a police car and trailed by four other vehicles, including a Secret Service station wagon and a press van, his limousine was hard to miss. Many motorists waved a cheerful if somewhat bemused good-morning as the Chief Executive, immersed in his morning newspapers, sailed past them in the lane reserved...
...money"--enough to gild the cage, never enough to secure the key. While those times have gone the way of the gold standard and Richard Nixon, society persists in regarding the presence of women in the labor force as an act of childish whimsy. We continue to refer to our 50-year-old woman worker as a working girl or sales girl, girl at the front desk or girl Friday. And we continue to think of her earnings as "found money" with which to buy the marmalade for the hard-won bread...
...because he had been a Justice Department colleague of two of the Watergate cover-up defendants) effectively pre-empted any charge that the President had been the victim of his liberal enemies. As if to emphasize the strictly legal, nonpolitical nature of its decision, the court did not once refer to the ongoing impeachment inquiry. Indeed, the ruling tried to ensure that the 64 taped conversations would not carelessly become impeachment evidence by instructing Judge Sirica to "discharge his responsibility to see to it that until released to the special prosecutor, no in camera material is revealed to anyone...