Word: ah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personality was dual. With undergraduates, who had grown to expect temperamental eccentricities, the irascible pedagogue he could be, but with advanced students in his graduate courses he was the urbane scholar, no pains too great to take, and ah, to the suppliant he could be sweet as Summer...
...play except Hamlet. The well-known lead is a crank at Oxford who in his tenth year as an undergraduate tries to help a couple of pals out of a hole by impersonating the aunt of one of them. As a chaperone who needs a chaper-one herself, ah himself, Benny spends the evening trying to get into the amorous clutches of his pals' financees and out of the amorous clutches of sundry bewhiskered males. Kay Francis as the real aunt shows up just in time to catch Benny on the rebound. She and the remainder of the supporting cast...
Many of the recordings made so far reveal that the most over-worked word in the Yardling vocabulary is "uh" or "ah", and that the most common sentence construction is a long, awkward pause. Difficulties such as these will be attacked by Professor Packard and his staff after they have been exposed to the light by the voice recordings...
...Here is a devil who in the mere spasms of his pride and lust for domination can condemn two or three millions-perhaps it may be many more-of human beings to speedy and violent death. . . . Ah, but this time it was not so easy. . . . For the first time Nazi blood has flowed in fearful flood. Perhaps a million and a half, perhaps two millions of Nazi cannon fodder have bit the dust on the endless plains of Russia...
...Negro company of the 367th Infantry at Camp Claiborne, La., a black first sergeant spoke dire words: "From now on when Ah blows dis yere whistle, Ah wants to see a huge impenetratable cloud of dust come boilin' outa them tents. An' when 'at dust clears away, Ah wants to find three rows of statues...