Word: ain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Van Doren (see SHOW BUSINESS) seemed to leave the U.S. "bewildered," said he. It reminded him of the time when the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking bribes to throw the 1919 World Series; a bewildered newsboy went to Outfielder "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe." Obstinacy at the bargaining table and dishonesty on the air waves, Ike went on, are reminders that "selfishness and greed . . . occasionally get the ascendancy over those things that we like to think of as the ennobling virtues of man-his capacity for self-sacrifice, his readiness...
Mister McKinley, he ain't done no wrong But Sholgosh he shot him with an Ivor-Johnson gun For to lay him down boys, to lay him down...
Along with his major piece, Pound also sent Gadfly the following two-line dissertation on modern politics: "The White House is a white house, It sure ain't a lighthouse...
...latest speech, said, "These are times to try men's souls... I am not a candidate... The President deserves our heartiest congratulations.... New York is a Summer Festival..." Press Secretary Hagerty denied categorically that General Motors had split the cost 50-50. Pogo sagely remarked, "But I ain't even seen the other side of Pogofenokee, yet." Governor Faubus has ordered the back of the Little Rock State House rebuilt...
...newspapers, because "I have a hunch that 99 million natives are going to make noise in the Union around Christmas, and I want to be there." In his hushpuppy accent (a defense mechanism, he claims), Bob Ruark adds: "You show me a guy writes a column or book and ain't a ham and I'll show you a bad writer. Man, I'm ham inside, outside and all around...