Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Please identify the Peoria that John Ehrlichman and others refer to by saying, "It'll play in Peoria" [Sept. 3]. If they mean that the citizens of Peoria, Ill., will settle for less than the whole truth about Watergate, then they are dead wrong...
...People think I am crazy when I refer to my home state as "God's country." Thanks for letting everyone know that Minnesota is truly all about the good life...
Disney World, the giant, technologically pure preserve in central Florida which company executives unflinchingly refer to as "The Magic Kingdom," far exceeded original estimates with an attendance of 10 million in 1972, its first full year in operation. In the first few months of this year, attendance jumped another 8.6% as millions more plunked down an average $10 a head to trundle down superclean "Main Street" into the most audacious melange of futuristic urban planning and nostalgic cutsie-poo kitsch ever conceived...
...from precisely such uncomfortable facts that mouthings about moral schizophrenia shield their speakers. The phrase "tragic war in Vietnam," has become a near proverb among Liberals. But "tragic" has no definite meaning; it doesn't refer to Aristotle's rules of drama, or Elizabethan concepts of the rise and fall of statesmen, or anything like that. Insofar as it means anything at all, it means "sad." Accordingly, the phrase is given out in subdued undertones, as though a dead man with a brokenhearted widow were weeping in the next room. It is used as if in reference to an accident...
Poulson's arrest means that British papers will no longer refer to him in connection with the growing scandal -now being called the "British Watergate"-and it makes especially poignant one sentence in the self-censored editorial: "We should certainly try to avoid the situation in the United States in which there are ordinary prosecutions and a major public inquiry taking place simultaneously." The upshot is that discussion of the larger scandal has been quashed for now. If the same system existed in the U.S., the real story of Watergate might have remained buried while the pawns were being...