Word: ah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly, like the Red Sea parting before the Israelites,the noisy crowd opened. Through a forest of waving palm branches, an open car bore a husky black man with fine-sculptured lips, melancholy eyes and a halo of frizzy black hair. The Right Honorable Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced En-kroom-ah), Bachelor of Divinity, Master of Arts, Doctor of Law and Prime Minister of the Gold Coast, waved a white handkerchief to his countrymen as they fought to touch the hem of his tunic. Then, as the band hit the groove, he jigged his broad shoulders in time to the whirling...
...artist is from Europe." he says, "we in America immediately think he is superior. I have visited Rome, Brussels and Paris, and I think our American modern art has more vigor and fire and life to it." How would he go about helping U.S. painters and sculptors? "Ah,." says Father Lauck, with a missionary gleam, "It's a pity not more American artists are doing religious subjects. The sponsor of so much great art in past centuries has been the Church. It could be again...
...Well," said the priest once again. "A clean man and a dirty man were each offered a bath. Now, which would take it?" "Ah," answered his flock with sudden inspiration, "both." "No, no," said the priest, "neither would take it, because the one was already clean and the other preferred his dirt. Now, for the last time, which man would take the bath?" "Neither," answered his congregation...
...understand when you give us a different answer every time?" cried an indignant student. "Ah," said the priest, "that is dialectical materialism...
...Well," happy Auguste told some friends soon afterward, "I'm soon going to marry a young widow." Lucienne dimpled prettily: "Ah, but I'm not a young widow." "Aha," countered Auguste roguishly, "but you soon will...