Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decorum. One student describes O'Toole as a "Harvard professor type" and a "pretty straight lawyer." His formal style of instruction often clashes with the demands of students for more freedom. A few weeks ago, a group of women could no longer tolerate his invariable use of "he" to refer to the abstract parties of the contracts he was describing. When O'Toole said "he" in reference to the president of an insurance company, a chorus of ten women jumped up in the middle of the class and sang a jingle about how "she" is as appropriate...
...refer to his wife, Pat, in the Checkers speech...
...investigators later confirmed that $75,000 was delivered that very night to the lawyer for E. Howard Hunt Jr., one of those convicted of staging the breakin. Also, the jurors were convinced that the President's statement, "It would be wrong, that's for sure," did not refer to the payment of bribes. In context, the statement appears to refer to the granting of clemency ?and to have been made out of political, not moral, considerations...
Essentially the plan is simple. Underneath the desert, running from the Sudanese border to El Alamein in the north, is a series of underground reservoirs connecting the major oases. Egyptians refer to this as the "Second Nile," or, as it is officially called, "the New Valley." Electric power from Aswan will be sent to the desert and used to pump up the water and irrigate the land. In a test project, 100,000 transplanted Egyptians are now living in the Kharga Oasis at the southeastern end of the desert, where they successfully raise crops and livestock. One farmer, Mohammed Mahmud...
...figure, Gris resorted to its most masklike aspect: that of Pierrot, whose sad face and bright costume were among Picasso's favorite motifs too. But when Picasso dealt with clowns and circus performers, there was a pathos behind the image that extended back to Watteau. The Picassos also refer to the late 19th century vision of the artist as an exalted clown and are tinged with autobiography. In Gris, it is solely the interlocking shapes, checkerboard lozenge cloth and elliptical buttons that count...