1. You see, Miss Williams -- or should I make that Fran, so that I can get used to calling you that? 2. A hammerhead is a shark, or what we used to call dopes in high school, in lieu of fathead. 3. But Ghana sounds like what my nieces and nephews used to call their grandmother, my mother, when they were little, because they had trouble saying Grandma. 4. But Grand Central is filled with pay phones, which could be used to call any broker. 5. But in those great cities nearly all the real action is to be found much nearer to what the Latins used to call the centrum. 6. But what if a voice line was used to call a cell phone? 7. Fred Babbitt of South Windsor, Conn., called to suggest using something called crocus cloth, a very fine sandpaper. 8. He added that minorities often feel that test scores are used to call attention to alleged inferiority rather than to inform interventions. 9. He was wearing cutoff bluejeans, a sleeveless shirt and what we used to call tennis shoes. 10. If your roof is steep, you may be able to work on it using brackets called roof jacks that hold boards to use as platforms. |