Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year reign, Sadat was never taken too seriously. He was judged to be unambitious and even weak, a man who seemed to care more about smart clothes, his home and car, than Cabinet meetings and political responsibility. Colleagues nicknamed him "Nasser's poodle," and even Nasser himself would refer to Sadat as a "black donkey." Characteristically, Sadat the survivalist concealed his feelings and watched and learned. "If you showed ambition with Nasser," he says now, "that was the end." Nearly all of the original Revolutionary Command Council were eventually ousted from office and in 1969 Nasser chose the unmenacing...
Still, at year's end, neither wordsmiths nor comedians have the power of the people. Some of the favorite phrases of 1977 will make it to the lexicons; most will wither before the new year ends. Pessimists have a point when they refer to the new excrescences of television ego-talk. But optimists are not wrong when they find clearer days on Capitol Hill and a tonic absence of Viet Nam euphemisms and campus-v.-cops rhetoric. "Things are improving," says TV Pundit Edwin Newman (A Civil Tongue): "Schools are finally doing what they ought to do, teaching...
...cultivate the Tromelin turtles for soup and tortoise shells, Sir Seewoosagur handed a note to his French ambassador reaffirming Mauritian sovereignty. Among other "proofs," the Prime Minister cited some unique documents that the World Court may be called on to examine: guano-gathering permits issued between 1901 and 1956 refer to the bird-bedecked island as a dependency of Mauritius...
Frank Rich's review of Frederick Wiseman's PBS film Canal Zone [Oct. 10] does a great injustice to Canal Zone residents. Specifically, I refer to such statements as "Zonians, for all their manic patriotic ardor, are a rootless and unhappy lot; their crime rate and child-abuse rates are well above the mainland rates...
James Beard, 74, Manhattan-based author-teacher: "Go through cookbooks and articles about cooking and mark down what can apply to your own kitchen. I underline things with red pencil that I want to refer back to or put slips of paper into pages I want to turn to. There is such a wealth of ideas in good cookbooks that no one can collect all of them in a lifetime...