Word: ain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this will probably be only good enough to give Dartmouth a good stiff scare, however. The Indians may be hurtin', but they ain't about to start losing yet. In fact, the major problem in Hanover right now is getting enough rain to permit the freshmen to hold their traditional pre-game bon fire rituals...
...Bein' cullud can be a lot of fun-when they ain't nobody lookin...
Mayor Rutherford. Said he: "You ain't going to have any trouble here, Mayor, and if you do, George will send the troopers right back." Retorted Rutherford bitterly: "Well, I have 8,000 angry citizens on my hands...
Shelagh Delaney, 24, and Bernard Kops, 37, are none of these things. They graduated into the welfare state from two of the most ferocious slums in Brit ain: she from one of the uglier neighborhoods around Manchester, and he from the ghetto of London's Stepney and Bethnal Green. In the nature of things, the stories of their own brief lives are more manifesto than reminiscence. Delaney pokes out her pert proletarian tongue at the Establishment; Kops throws a whole coster's barrowful of dead haddock. Both have produced fascinating documents and useful items for those who like...
...back into the water with what seems a shrug of disgust. Skilled fishermen sometimes try to trick a white marlin onto the hook by "racing" the bait (skipping it swiftly along the surface), then suddenly dropping it backward as the openmouthed fish approaches. Even that tactic often fails. "Ain't nothing in the ocean so hard to outguess as a marlin," says one Ocean City charter-boat captain. "All I've learned in 15 years is never to expect no favors from them...