Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Council took no action on the petition other than to refer it to a committee for study. When it comes to a vote in the Council, Harvard will need the votes of at least six of the nine city councilors in order to receive the zoning change...
Grover Walker, co-chairman of first year Business School Afro, cited four articles and an editorial which he said were racist, but he refused to pick out specific passages. "If it becomes necessary and expedient in the future to refer very explicitly to the racist overtones of the articles, I will. What occurred last week is an accomplished fact. I think we have reached a meeting of the minds," he said...
...Your reference to Murphy's Law touches on only part of that ancient Irish potentate's laws. Tradition has it that Finn Cool Murphy was the prosperous sovereign of a happy people. He had charm, deep wisdom, was cultured and a poet. His set of the laws of life refer with circularity to nothing, everything and anything. They are: 1) nothing is as easy as it looks; 2) everything takes longer than you think it will; and 3) if anything can go wrong, it will...
...claims of any sort, Grass rejects this sort of praise out of hand. For other reasons, a great many of his fellow countrymen reject the judgment too, particularly former Nazis, the middle class and petty shopkeepers of the older generation from whom Grass himself sprang. Such folk like to refer to him as "Pornograss," or contemptuously as der Schnauzbart (the mustache...
...commands sent out to recapture the Führer's lost German shepherd, Prinz, as the Third Reich crumbles. Sample: "On the JüterbogTorgau line, projected antitank trenches are replaced by Führerdogtraptrenches." Often the bristliest bits in Grass's prose derive from what critics refer to as "thing magic" (Dingmagie), those long inventories of physical objects that Grass compiles to retrieve German from abstraction and the swarms of technical terms he uses, mostly derived from his own odd pockets of experience...