Word: referents
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...Franklin: It's really a big adjustment coming to the North because you talk to people's parents and relatives and they say, 'I'm not that old. Don't call me that.' But people will be offended if you refer to them as sir or ma'am and in the South if you don't use it you're the most uncultured human being who ever walked the earth...
Ellen H. Schneider '01, who works at the grill on Monday nights, says grill employees affectionately refer to pumpernickel bagels as "The Noah." Only Seton ever orders them, she says...
...supporters refer to "Ambassador Keyes," but for a man who never served as the top United States representative to any nation, the title is a bit hyperbolic. Nonetheless, his career in international diplomacy got him to wherever it is he is now. In the early 1980s, the legendary Jeane Kirkpatrick, soon to be named Ronald Reagan's ambassador to the U.N., was travelling through India with three other Americans, debating capitalism, socialism and democracy with Indian intellectuals, none of whom subscribed to philosophies even remotely resembling Reaganonmics...
...what really burned Soudavar, even more than the Advocate's "occasional cigarette tasting nights," was the use of the words "party room" to describe the chamber in which the Advocate throws "parties." "After all we don't refer publicly to [The Crimson's] 'Sanctum' as the Incest Room," he shot back cryptically in an e-mail message. He continued his defense with, "The Harvard Advocate is not 'shutting down the party room' because we do not have a 'party room.' We have a Reading Room, a Business Office, a Bathroom, a Design room, a Sanctum, and a Kitchen area...
Both the ACLU's Snyder and Auwarter refer to the case of Doug Hann, a Brown student who was expelled in 1991--a case which the New York Times said called at the time "the first such expulsion in the country...