Word: ain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gillette might have replied, but didn't: We ain...
...friends carried in the casket. Old Jim walked behind the casket, hat in hand, a properly sad expression on his weather-beaten face. The preacher began his text: "He that believeth in me though he be dead yet shall he live." Old Jim turned, beaming, to a friend. "Ain't that guy a preaching fool? I'm gonna set him up for life." Tears gathered in his eyes when the recorded strain of Beautiful Isle of Somewhere floated out over the armory...
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (Risë Stevens, mezzo-soprano; Robert Merrill, baritone; the Robert Shaw Chorale, the RCA Victor Orchestra, Robert Russell Bennett conducting; Victor, 2 sides LP). Highlights, including Summertime, My Man's Gone Now, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' and It Ain't Necessarily So. Performance and recording: good...
Individual as well as collective U.S. valor ran high during the fight on Hwachon's camel's head. One sergeant who wanted to rejoin his unit in spite of a broken foot protested violently against evacuation. "It ain't broken, it ain't broken," he cried to a medical corpsman. "I'm going back up!" The corpsman applied pressure to the foot, moved the broken bones. The sergeant's face contorted with pain, but he uttered no sound. The corpsman shook his head, then ordered the fighter out of combat...
...year history of the study of laughter . . ." Answered Cartoonist Capp: "I (gulp!) guess I am an amateur. I guess I have been so busy for the last 18 years creating humor (effective enough at least to hold the daily attention of 40 million people) that I just ain't had time to study...