Word: ah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beirut last week, the real issues of international understanding were plainly too hot to handle. The best that a disillusioned Frenchman in downtown Beirut could say of those who kept hands off: "Ah, ces Unescans! Ces gens sans race, sans couleur et sans sexe...
...dictator asked again: "Who sneezed?" No answer. "Shoot everyone in the second row." Finally, when the smell of gunpowder had drifted away a second time, a timid character rose diffidently in the third row. "C-c-c-omrade Stalin," he stammered, "it was I who s-s-s-sneezed." "Ah," said the dictator genially: "Gesundheit!" and the meeting went...
...Ah me! what Habit makes poor women
...said one. "Just the same, before the revolution they promised us that in the future it would be the masters' turn to sweep the streets and collect the garbage. Now what happens? We are still doing the dirty work." The other took a long draught of his beer. "Ah," he replied at last, "you seem to forget: we are now the masters...
...Tallul'ah, an Indian word of unknown origin (it may mean "terrible"), came to her by way of her maternal grandmother from Tallulah Falls in northeastern Georgia. The falls are now dammed, but, appropriately, there is a Tallulah Power Plant...