Word: ah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every prudent Italian knows, it is perfectly legal and frequently necessary to fold the middle fingers back under the thumb and jab the first and little fingers down at the ground. Such "horns" ward off evil spirits. But if the fingers point upward? Ah, the corna instantly sneers that the addressee is a cuckold. The gesture is so unbearable that in Verona recently a truck driver was fined $50 and court costs for understandably lofting the corna at a madly beeping motorist...
Pistol-Packin' Mama. In the death scene, Stratas shed real tears and made her audience suffer with her as the strings surged upward to a great chord, punctured by Violetta's desperate cry: "Ah! gran' Dio! Morir si giovine [Ah, great God! To die so young]." After the performance, Teresa, smothered in flowers, wearing a green Florentine velvet gown, was seized by a hollow cough. "You see, Violetta is contagious," she said...
...Ah," he replied, "when I was a young student of political science at the University of Tokyo I met Georges Ohsawa. He rediscovered the ancient yin-yang cosomology of Chinese emperor Fou-hi, who ruled about 2910 B.C. He taught me that man is unhappy because he feels divorced from the world. The dialectic of world peace can be achieved only through diet." He continued, describing how Ohsawa had founded several "sanarants," sanatorium restaurants, in France and six Macrobiotic restaurants in New York...
...Ah, said Ervin, but the state or county "has to hitchhike a thousand miles to get here." What he meant was that the bill provides that a three-judge court in the District of Columbia is the only one allowed to adjudicate such matters; the provision was written into the bill to keep voting issues out of the hands of segregationist Southern judges. Said Ervin: "This seals shut the door of every courthouse except that in the District of Columbia." He also pointed out that the rules of the D.C. district court allow witnesses to be subpoenaed only from within...
...used to hate mink but now I appreciate it for its solidarity," cooed Barbra, adding that sable is solid too. Before the kookie crumbled completely, she slipped into a good old "poor girl" sweater, with a great swishy white hat that reminded her "a little of the Mad Hatter." Ah, Funny Girl...