Word: reference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each of the two national party chairmen made a significant concession to the opposition. Setting aside a G.O.P. practice that has been observed almost invariably since 1946, the new Republican chairman, Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton, announced that, personally he will continue to refer to the enemy as "the Democratic Party," instead of continuing the "Democrat Party" label applied by his predecessors. For his part, Democratic Chairman Paul Butler confessed to a high political crime: he has sometimes voted for a Republican. "But in each case." explained candid Ticket-Splitter Butler, "I have always prayed for forgiveness...
Endwise. In Ottawa, Canadian Agriculture Minister Douglas Harkness sent an edict through his department saying that henceforth documents would refer to work as "completed," "concluded," or "finished," but under no circumstances would any work be "finalized...
...kind of game between the two pianists--each must follow a cue given by the other, and each has a certain number of alternatives for every cue. Wolff is writing for his performers quite as much as for his audience. In discussing this technique he does not refer to Western precedent, but talks about Hindu instrumental virtuosos, who play complicated rhythmic games with each other; the winner is the performer who succeeds in upsetting the other's patterns...
...complete agreement," he told a shoe and leather men's banquet last week in Boston, "you address him merely as 'The Senator from such-and-such a state.' If you are not too sure he agrees wholly with you, you should refer to him as 'The able Senator from-.' But if you know there is violent disagreement on an issue, there is only one way to address him: The able and distinguished Senator, my friend from -.' " ¶ Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn gaveled through two friendly relief measures for his longtime opposite number and friend...
Today the identities of the institution and its home have mingled. To blaspheme the place is common practice on the part of those who adore it. Some refer to it as the "out house." But let anyone suggest changing quarters and a department of disparate factions will respond as one. As Professor Bate puts it, "It would seem like sacrilege...