Word: ah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor and all the citizens of Bernay who gathered in the town hall on that broiling day of August 1948 laughed aside the protest with proud, tolerant smiles. Too much honor? For Roger Touchard, the champion marksman of two continents, the local boy who had made good? Too much? "Ah, tell me, Touchard," said one of the local dignitaries, "what would you say to a red ribbon in your coat, the Cross of the Legion of Honor? What would you say to that, eh?" Roger merely gasped...
...Rome, by Playwright Robert Sherwood, is an amiable bit of pig Latin. Esther is cast as Amytis, betrothed of Fabius Cunctator (George Sanders), the Roman dictator, in 216 B.C. But Esther is bored. Then all at once Hannibal (Howard Keel) crushes the Roman legions and marches on the city. "Ah," cries Esther, "wotta day!" She sneaks out to meet the enemy on her own terms. Hannibal orders her put to death. Esther takes off her cloak. He orders her put to bed. The tactical problems she presents are so engrossing that Hannibal forgets all about his warlike intentions. Rome...
...Ah, then I shall take it with...
...backwoods preacher once explained his homiletic methods thus: "Ah tells 'em what Ah's gwan to tell 'em. Then Ah tells 'em what Ah done told 'em." The Eisenhower Administration has used a roughly equivalent brand of economic preaching, and last week, in his annual Economic Report, the President told how well it had worked in stemming last year's "contraction" (i.e.,mild recession...
...evening in Rome, Mendès got cornered at a cocktail party by fellow-traveling Socialist Pietro Nenni who objected to West German rearmament. Mendès retorted: "German rearmament has already been started in Eastern Germany." "But that is only police," said Nenni. "Ah, oui," snapped Mendès-France. "A police force that uses armored cars and airplanes to hunt down criminals...