Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refer to "what it (NDAG) calls the 'automated battlefield' in Southeast Asia." The Senate Armed Services Committee formed an Electronic Battlefield subcommittee more than a year ago, and the phrases electronic or automated battlefield have been used regularly in the press. At the Senate hearings. Major Raymond Anderson of their Air Force Tactical Operations Directorate described an integrated system of sensors and munitions that is now being dropped in Indochina...
...Then you refer to an "alleged" $800,000 worth of defense department contracts received by Aerospace. The Deputy Comptroller for Information of the Office of the Secretary of Defense publishes these figures in its "Department of Defense Prime Contractors which Received Awards of $10,000 or more Fiscal Year 19. "For 1969 Aerospace received $425,000 and in 1970 $315,000. (Figures for 1971 are not yet available, but just the contracts we have identified for 1971 bring the total to well over $800,000 in just the last three years according to official sources...
Ulbricht's re-election caught most outsiders by surprise. Last May, Ulbricht was suddenly and unceremoniously ousted from his far more powerful post as party leader in favor of Erich Honecker, whom the Russians refer to as "our man." Most foreign experts were convinced that the gaunt and obviously sickly Ulbricht would also be dumped from his largely ceremonial post as Chairman of the State Council...
...people, red people, yellow people and white people: the unmarked pronoun just happens to be the one used for white people. In addition, the colored peoples just happen to constitute an oppressed group. Now imagine that this oppressed group begins complaining about the use of the "white" pronoun "to refer to all people."' Our linguists presumably then say. "Now, now, 'there is really no cause for anxiety or pronoun envy...' You just don't understand that 'markedness is one of the fundamental principles which govern the organization of the internal economies of all human languages."' Such a reply is completely...
Ionesco makes no mention of his playwriting in Present Past Past Present. In several passages he uses his symbol of the rhinoceros for those insensitive conformists, the 'New Men', who are the ogres of Ionesco's imagination, but never does he refer to the play Rhinoceros which was his first commercial success. Except for a smattering of italicized comments sprinkled throughout the text Present Past was written before Ionesco wrote his first play. The Bald Soprano, at the age of thirty-seven. Ionesco writes of his youth in Rumania and Paris, his father's desertion of his mother, the horrors...