Word: refering
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...were as ignorant of all anatomical knowledge as a child of four. Doctor will start, for instance, speaking very slowly, with 'you see, the heart is a sort of pump,' and will then imitate the action of a pump, unrecognizably, with his hands. Or he will refer to the blood corpuscles as 'the white fellows and the red chaps.' Alternately ... he will give totally unnecessary technical names and then explain them-e.g., 'That mild rhinitis of yours; sniffles to you.' Most annoying of all, when examining the lady patient on the regularity...
...their otherwise humdrum speech pattern are generally among those who condescendingly mimic these allegedly Brooklyn cockneyisms. How horrified they would be to learn that in England itself, their adopted home, educated speakers are guilty of the same barbarisms." Swallering is quite common among Britons, and even the best people refer to the Indiar Office. But, says Brooklyn's Levine, "it is not considered bad form in England...
...page package of facts ranging from Abbot (how to introduce and refer to)" to "Zones (parcel post)," the handbook may prove to be the best friend the working girl has ever had. It tells...
...sure, in the scene to which you refer, Barbara Allen (played by Miss Northrup) does find herself in a rather compromising position. However, if technical arrangements proceed as they should, the climax shall be left to the imagination of the audience. Warren Brody '52 President, Harvard Dramatic Club
...protesters also rebelled at the description of pre-Civil War Negroes as "a race with exasperating habits" and the characterization of the typical Negro slave as "childlike, improvident, humorous, prevaricating, and superstitious." Finally, they objected to the occasional use of "blacks" to refer to Negroes...