Word: ah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deflating campus stuffed shirts. When a notoriously long-winded instructor finally wound up his lecture one day, Ed Lahey inquired slyly: "Would you mind summarizing that last point in 10,000 words?" To another intellectual, who thought he was talking over Lahey's head, Lahey once cracked: "Ah, Shakespeare! I'm nuts about him. I read everything he writes, as fast as it comes...
...Hand me my dulcy-more," 62-year-old "Aunt" Ellen Fields will chirp to a visitor at her house near Viper. "This thang hain't much good any more. Ah put in a new fret-just took a pin and bit the head offen h'it-but h'it still don't play too good." When she plays, she puts the three-stringed instrument across her lap, then strums out the tune on the top string while the bottom two give off a thin, constant drone. For lonesome songs, she tunes the top string down...
...time, said Pakistan's Chaudhri Mohammed AH, that "the observer made some observations." Iran's Hussein Ala was more blunt: "We would warmly welcome the early accession of the U.S." For the U.S., unwilling to join a pact with a country (Iraq) which is still officially at war with Israel, Gallman could only reaffirm the U.S.'s continued encouragement and support...
...success. Fabliau is now so gentle he's a household pet. For company we've let him have a cow as a stable mate. I think the cow has a homey, comforting influence that makes him happy." Last week, Fabliau trotted off to Chantilly to begin training. "Ah, my little eunuch," said M. Auteroche, "how you have suffered. But you will be a winner...
Rotterdam, Veeridam (ah, but the crew is cranky), Grande Dame (the liner she's), Rooseveltdam, Hotdam, Goddamn. Aphasia, Valeteria (founded in 1926), Ablaut, Umlaut, Nein and Ja (freight only...