Word: ah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immodest clothes, told her he would rather see her in a whorehouse than with her mother, and lectured her sternly about his superior philosophical systems ("Mine," he wrote, "are based on reason, and yours are merely the fruit of stupidity"). He was more jovial with his valet Carteron: "Ah: you ancient pumpkin cooked in bugs' juice, third horn of the devil's head, codface drawn out like the two ears of an oyster, slipper of a procuress." It was hardly an appropriate tone to take with one's valet, but Carteron was no ordinary valet...
...town of about 2300 people and headquarters of Kunike Chiefdom. Immediately after my arrival, I went to the highest point in the town to survey my new home: the huts of mud, wattle, and burlap; the fragrance of lilac, frangipani, and purple-tassled flowers filling the heavy air -- ah, sweet life. While I was gone my house was robbed...
...Ayub's controlled press had claimed one magnificent victory after another in Kashmir. When Ayub and India's late Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri agreed in Tashkent last month to observe the original border and withdraw their troops from it, Pakistan's vitriolic Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto nearly resigned in disgust, and students demonstrated in a dozen towns. Throughout Pakistan, the feeling grew that Ayub had sold...
...into the book. The general, said he, had a reputation as a ladies' man once, even used to pursue the same demoiselles as his former comrade-in-arms Marshal Henri Pétain. Well, a friend asked the general in later years if the story was true. "Ah, oui," De Gaulle answered. "Pétain and I were sometimes on the same terrain. But not on the same night...
...famous hoodlum declared that he was going to get Broderick. First Grade Detective Broderick, Shield No. 226, heard about the boast and went looking for Legs. "I understand you've been looking for me," growled Johnny as some of Legs's backup men started drifting away. "Ah, hell, Johnny, can't you take a joke?" asked a worried Legs. "Not from you, y'bum," replied Broderick as his left hook mashed Diamond into unconsciousness...