Word: ah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were just chewing the fat,' remarked the able, indispensable Secretary of the Air Force to White House reporters a short time ago as he left the presence of Mr. Truman. In the absence of your correspondents on other business, there was none in that gathering to reply, 'Ah, Mr. Secretary, but how about the muscle of national defense which your superior, . . . Johnson, has cut away with the fat, in sparing the aorta and the gonads...
...already inspired their loyalty and a certain affection. Among the crowds that jammed the streets at the end of his big day last week, a motherly Belgian woman watched the new King pass behind a prancing escort of mounted gendarmes in gleaming boots and top-heavy bearskin busbies. "Ah, le pauvre petit," she murmured. "All alone in his big auto...
Under the Bully Choops. The Klamath does not look like much on a map, but its annual flow is 10 million acre-feet, about equal to one of the poorer years of the Colorado. According to one plan, an 813-ft. dam at Ah Pah, near the mouth of the Klamath, will back it far up its southern tributary, the Trinity. A tunnel 60 miles long under the Bully Choop Mountains will export 6,000,000 acre-feet into the Sacramento. After getting a boost from a battery of pumps, the water will follow a canal to Bakersfield. Then another...
...first hole (par five). Burkemo, also well-placed, was in line for a birdie. He got it, too. Then Snead, taking dead aim from the fringe of the green, chipped into the cup for an eagle three. "After that start," said Snead in his corn-pone drawl, "ah thought unless Burkemo goes hawg wile, ah'd be O.K. Ah thought if a man can't win six up he oughta quit and go home." Sam won seven up. It was the handsomest winning margin since a newcomer named Sam Snead lost to Paul Runyan in the 1938 P.G.A...
...offices, upstairs." They marched into the rooms of General Manager Eric Drake, who had gone to Basra, Iraq, 40 miles away, because he feared arrest on trumped-up "sabotage" charges. In Drake's office, they confronted Assistant General Manager Alec Mason and five other top British executives. "Ah, gentlemen," said Mason, "you have come to talk with us?" "No," said Daftary, "we've just come to move into Mr. Drake's office since he's not coming back." Said Mason to a reporter as he walked out: "Well, they have just taken the last plunge...