Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refer here, of course, to a true desire widely held, not to that deceitful McCarthy kind which merely masks a drive for power. Much of the explanation for the growth among us of intolerant attitudes and the acceptance of destructive styles of behavior which should be anathema in academic societies is undoubtedly to be found in such considerations...
...refuse to reveal all details, it is known that all passengers are carefully scrutinized before boarding, and all baggage is probably Xrayed. Since skyjackers forced an El Al plane to Algiers in 1968, all El Al planes have carried two to four plainclothes security men. The armed guards, who refer to themselves as the "007 Squad," are generally muscular young men, often ex-paratroopers, trained in karate. Superb marksmen, they are armed with low-velocity pistols, which are powerful enough to kill but unlikely to puncture the fuselage. It was these guards who overpowered two would-be hijackers...
...other countries, however, have declined officially to recognize the existence-or the dangers-of the disease. Iran and Iraq stopped all reports about their cholera epidemics after 1964, when the Soviet Union refused to accept shipments of citrus fruits and other goods from cholera-stricken Iran. Both countries now refer only to outbreaks of misleadingly labeled "summer diarrhea." Egyptian authorities have been equally ostrichlike. Fearful of disrupting their country's ailing tourist industry, they have refused to restrict travel and euphemistically describe as "summer disease" what one World Health Organization official estimates to be 3,000 current cases...
...individual image. But for Philip Kunhardt, in this recollection of his years with Father, the memories of the boy needed no later adjustment by the grown man. Indeed, Kunhardt, now 42, still remembers his father with such unalloyed love that nowhere in the book does he think to refer to him by name...
Cheek expressed doubt that Nixon had understood what he and G. Alexander Heard, president of Vanderbilt, meant when they warned him of student fears of repression. "Many people in government refer to repression as a myth...