Some priests have been grumbling that the cardinal ordered pastors to make no reference to the letter in their homilies this weekend.
[Update: on May 24, the New York Times carried an article that contained a glancing reference to the letter from Obama to Lula that diminished its significance; I compare the New York Times reference to the Reuters report below, after the video.].
If you really want to up the ante, make any reference to the letter "I" in your word fragment equate to the digit "1" on your keypad.
Mr. Obama, who is often criticized for a professorial manner, repeatedly personalized the issue, making references to the letters from needy people he reads every night, his daughters' childhood illnesses, his mother's death from ovarian cancer and his own early struggles with fly-by-night insurance companies.
"When is the N.L.I. coming in?" Smith asked, in reference to the national letter of intent.
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I found the earliest online reference to the used-paperback letter in a 1993 posting to a Usenet newsgroup.
In "Easy-Bake Coven", the animators referenced the film The Crucible for many of their designs, and Edna Krabappel is wearing a Scarlet A, which is a reference to the novel The Scarlet Letter.
In his letter to the Guardian last week, Scargill described the disclosure as "the most outrageous smear since the Zinoviev letter" – a reference to the security services faking a famous historical letter calling for insurrection in Britain in 1924.
It's a variant of 311, three references to the 11th letter, k, for the Ku Klux Klan.
The letter makes reference to the ongoing war against drug cartels in Mexico, which sparked a wave of violence that has left 164,000 dead between 2007 and 2014, according to Frontline.
