The privilege process: How doctors get privileges at hospitals. Patients, naturally, want good, qualified doctors. But so do hospitals. That means that simply being a licensed physician does not guarantee doctors will be granted hospital privileges, area hospital executives say.
Stirring is a more gentle technique for mixing cocktails and is used to delicately combine the drinks with a perfect amount of dilution from the ice. Many gin and whiskey cocktails are stirred because shaking is said to bruise the spirit (though that is also up for debate).
*toccare to knock, strike as a bell (cf. Sp. tocar, It. toccare), perhaps of imitative origin. Meaning to get or borrow money first recorded 1760. Touched stirred emotionally is from mid-14c.; touching affecting the emotions is from 1601. Touch and go (adj.) is recorded from 1812, apparently from the name of a tag-like game, first recorded 1655. Touch football is first attested 1933.