Word: ansuh
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When he took the stand in the Senate caucus room, Tony Ducks was not talking, beyond muttering "I refuse t'ansuh on the ground it may tend ta 'criminate me." But Tony talked anyway-on six wiretaps played by the committee. In telephone talks with a Runyonesque rogue's gallery of obsequious underlings (including his front man, natty Sam Goldstein, who also claimed protection under the Fifth Amendment), Tony Ducks showed that he is a Little Caesar among New York's labor racketeers: as a top gun, Tony Ducks snarled out advice to his hoodlums. Item...
Samuel Stoney, Manhattan architect, native of Charleston, S. C., gave an accurate imitation of Gullah (early Negro) dialect: "Once deh bin ah nyung rat wat couldn't muk up eh mine. Whenebber duh turrah rat ax um ef e would like tuh come oudt widdum, e would muk ansuh, 'I dunno...
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