Word: asses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same tone he would use to say "She's a lulu." Once married to her, he starts composing verses about roses and nightingales in the garden outside her bedchamber. When the poems fail to impress the pouting bride, Lund turns on the nearest nightingale and roars: "You silly ass!" In reply, the soundtrack lets out a squawk like a barnyard...
...satisfied. For one thing, he had not grasped the importance of mathematics soon enough: "I saw that mathematics was split into numerous specialties, each one of which could easily absorb the short lifetime granted us. Consequently, I saw myself in the position of Buridan's ass*. . . unable to decide...
...village over there," explained the American. "Well," the peasant muttered half to himself, "that certainly seems a complicated way to do such a simple job." "Is that so?" asked the engineer. "And just how would you go about it?" "Well," said the Greek, "I'd just let this ass loose and tell him to go home. He'd take the shortest road." "Oh," said the engineer, "and what would you do if you didn't have him?" The peasant sucked thoughtfully on a piece of straw for several minutes. "In that case," he said at last...
...Hecht, who from a safe distance has long and loudly egged on Jewish terrorists, also made a statement. Said he: "[Bernadotte] was an ass not worthy of so fine a death...
Then he turned angrily on the committeemen: "I would like to say that to come here and discover that the ass under the lion's skin is Crosley-I don't know why your committee didn't pursue this careful method of interrogation at an earlier date before all of this publicity...