Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lotz entered a party a few days later, the brigadier shouted: "Here comes the Israeli spy who tried to get into our rocket base." Everyone laughed, including Lotz. He had already reported to his Israeli colleagueswho still refer to him as "the champagne spy"that the Shaloufa base was being made ready for Soviet missiles...
KING-MESSIAH for Jews. Second Coming of Jesus for Christians. Imam Mahdi for Moslems. Kalki Avatar For Hindus. Sosiosh for Zoroastrians. Maitreya Buddha for Buddhists. Others. Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of modern Theosophy, says all these hopes refer to one and the same objective event which will occur...
...most Americans called progressive have been distinguished by their opposition to the business system, which has introduced 90% of the enormous progress (or at least change) that has appeared in 20th century America. Obversely, a number of businessmen, while transforming the society by automobiles, advertising, computers and urbanization, refer to themselves as conservatives, a term suggesting opposition to change. Almost any so-called radical utterance these days will contain an explicit or implicit rejection of the mainstream of change during the past 150 years, together with a longing for a future society conceived as a static Elysium...
...begun direct service linking a dozen colleges with major cities and has hired student representatives on campus to promote Greyhound. Kerrigan claims that many students see the bus as a sort of folk symbol-a metaphor for reality, a part of the new open-road mystique-and that they refer to travelers who take planes as "plastic people." In the last year, references to Greyhound or bus have bounced up in several popular songs, notably the country music hit Thank God and Greyhound. Sample lyric...
...addition, you refer to certain similarities between your own recollections, which you note having recorded in some sort of memory book, and those of Ganin, the main character in Mary. You seemed puzzled at having found that many of said details were more vivid in their fictional context than when you set them down years later as autobiography. However, your explanation that Ganin was closer in time to the details than you were as an autobiographer is too hasty. May I direct your attention to Ada, a bestseller about time and memory in which an elderly gentleman conjures...