Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power, the Baath Party has ruthlessly consolidated its rule. One method was the execution of more than 120 potential opponents, some of whom were strung up in Baghdad's Tahrir Square in grisly public hangings. Other enemies of the regime languish in a Baghdad prison that Iraqis ironically refer to as the "Palace of the End." President Ahmed Hassan Bakr, 57, the cautious army general who was installed to arbitrate between feuding Baath factions, has become a figurehead as Vice President Takriti concentrated power in his own hands. Says a Western diplomat in Baghdad: "As things stand now, Bakr...
Sales of the sophisticated Japanese cameras are clicking up fast in the U.S. and have wiped out practically all competition from German models. Still, the Japanese marketed only about 1,000,000 cameras in the U.S. last year, capturing under 10% of unit sales. Japanese manufacturers, in fact, refer to the U.S. as a "developing market...
...capable of spellbinding audiences with glimpses into new scientific frontiers. Land is revered by his employees, stockholders and even his competitors to a greater degree than almost any other corporate chief in the U.S. He so greatly personifies his company that top executives at competing Kodak nearly always refer to the Polaroid Corp. as "he" or "him." Says Kodak Vice President Van Phillips: "Someday Edwin Land will be ranked with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell." He quickly adds: "And George Eastman" (the Kodak founder...
Muscovites jokingly refer to Nixon as "Moscow's new chief architect...
...first, they not only sent their children to the public grade schools, a longtime Amish practice, but some parents permitted their teen-agers to attend two years of high school as well. Still, they feared that high school would tempt their children to "go English," as the Amish refer to slipping into worldly ways. The "English" world is non-Amish society; among themselves most Amish speak the German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch, and in religious services they use High German. New Glarus Farmer Wallace Miller, father of twelve and one of the respondents in the Supreme Court case, explained...