Word: ain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside, people pressed their noses against the glass. A few yards from the gayly lighted band stand, children pranced about a set of reindeer. "That one's Rudolph." "No it ain't. It's Prancer. HE don't have a red nose...
...Hallam L. Movius, Jr. '30, curator of Paleolithic Archaeology at Peabody Museum, led a group of scientists to France in order to make some diggings in the La Columbiere range. The site of the excavations was eastern France, at the banks of the Ain River near where it flows out of the Jura Alps...
...said nothing for a while. Finally, a 23-year-old rifleman from Honolulu, whose black hair had grown streaked with grey since he came into the line last July, spat on a splintered railroad tie. "So what?" he asked. "I'm going to start holding my breath? I ain't counting on nothing except that old big R in rotation to get me outa here." The BAR (Browning automatic rifle) man scuffed a stone and said: "So what're we supposed to do? When we can stop fighting, the man will tell us, and until then...
...welcome from District Court Judge Dickinson Letts, who had a note of cynicism for those who aspired to the bench. In these days of high taxes, he said, "it takes a peculiar damn fool to be a judge. The pay is like the old gray mare-t ain't what it used...
...Turks." Lord Woolton, 68, the florid, white-haired department-store tycoon and campaign organizer for the Tories -Lord President of the Council, with special responsibilities for food and agriculture. Tories call him "Uncle Fred" the Laborites call him "Uncle Woof-Woof" -in both cases behind his back. As Brit ain's wartime Food Minister, he did an amazingly efficient job of fusing the nation by substituting such cold comforts as dried eggs and Woolton Pie (cod and potatoes) for the beefy luxuries of the British dinner table -and instead of becoming the most unpopular man in Britain, emerged...