Word: ap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rankings, the Crimson eleven has held its first four opponents to an average of 8.8 yards per game on the ground, inflicting losses totaling 175 yards in those four contests as against gains of 210 yards. If the team can keep up this average in its remaining contests (and AP calls this doubtful), it will top the record set by Alabama last year...
...gawk at a giant diamond in the floor. Last week it was gone from its star-shaped setting. On the Day of St. Dismas, patron of good thieves, a thief crashed the glass covering, chiseled out the 23 -carat shiner. * Alongside he jotted cabalistically: 2:45-3:10, then ap parently left by the Capitolio's front door...
...gittle, giddle-di-ap, giddle-de-tommy, riddle de biddle de roop, da-reep, fa-san, skeedle de woo-da, fiddle de wada, reep...
...which made the musicomedy Let's Face It famous. In this, while triple-tonguing his "de-geet gat giddle," Kaye mimicked an inductee pleading for deferment because of bad ears, flat feet, ulcers, decayed teeth; took him into training with a few key words like "Shad-ap!" (indicating a tough top sergeant) or "hut, tut, t'ree, fo" (for long marches). But mostly it was all "riddle-de biddle, de reep...
Most of these books fell afoul of U.S. obscenity laws. But pirated editions ap peared in the more literate U.S. drawing rooms. Soon, not only a band of hysterical disciples and a handful of choosy intellectuals (T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Osbert Sitwell, Edmund Wilson) regarded Miller as a talented writer with a flair for outrageous humor. Said the sobersided Satur day Review of Literature: Miller is "the largest force lately risen on the horizon of American letters...