Word: ah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ah, said the reporter, a little weakly, then Richard was interested in the derivation of words? "Yes," said Richard, "Etymology, it's called." Certainly, he enjoyed reading the dictionary: "It changes the subject often...
Scotland was burning last week, as any Clydesider in any pub would have told you: "A scandal, lad, a scandal. The Parliament allowing only half a day to a debate on the dismal category of trends and tendencies in Scotland. Ah, lad, the Scottish workingman is getting the short end of the horn as usual...
...little boats pitched and shivered in the high swells; the hardiest officers aboard thought that their necks were snapping off. They sympathized with Mrs. MacArthur, the boy and Ah Ju. Toward dawn, three hours behind schedule, the little fleet made its intended landfall-on or near the Island of Mindoro, no more than 100 miles from the nearest Japanese lines, no farther from Manila. Awaiting General MacArthur were two Flying Fortresses. Exactly how and where they found concealment and landing space, was something the Japs may never know...
Just where the Fortresses landed in northern Australia was a secret last week. Fourteen of General MacArthur's staff proceeded forthwith to Melbourne, but he stayed behind with his family to rest for a day. The sea and air voyage had worn Mrs. MacArthur, her son and Ah...
...Ah Ju blinked, ducked in terror when photographers' flashlights blazed in her face. With imperial MacArthurian self-possession, Arthur marched with his mother through the generals and the crowd to a car where 6-ft. 3-in. Sergeant Donald Broe, of Waterloo, Ia., proudly waited to drive the General behind the four-starred flag on the hood. But the General stayed behind, followed later in a car with the two-starred flag of a major general. In the crowd, General MacArthur spotted Press Officer Lloyd Lehrbas, who covered Washington affairs for the Associated Press when MacArthur was Chief...