Word: referents
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What was obvious to me was the lump on his forehead,” Boyle said. “I would not refer to it as head trauma...
This is also how refer to our peers: “Do you know that girl?” we’ll ask each other, or, “Do you see that girl over there?” Anecdotes about section or about extra-sectional cattiness almost always begin, “So there’s this girl—.” We are about as likely to call ourselves “women” as we are to call ourselves “crones...
...WASP,” say, or “Yuppie”—are of relatively recent coinage. We may not yet feel comfortable calling ourselves women—but we need not call ourselves girls by default. We might, for instance, begin refer to ourselves as “dolls”—a term both more precisely equivalent to “guys” and one that also suggests a certain ironical tough-broad panache. Dolls...
...have heard otherwise healthy freshmen refer to Harvard’s most august stately house as “Dumpster” and even state the superiority of Mather—which is naught but the box out of which Dunster came! I have even visited the Big Tom Tower of Christ Church College, Oxford and it is but a humbled ancestor of the majestic tower which tops the pinnacle of Dunster...
...eight, who affectionately refer to themselves as “46” in reference to their official blocking group number, decided to celebrate today’s housing assignments by visiting each House at 11 p.m. In the courtyards of the Houses they wanted to live in, some members of “46” downed shots of Malibu and Jamaican Rum in hopes that their toasts would bring good luck...