Word: asses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants it, then the U.S. may go on its own . . . That is a very dangerous matter." Labor backbencher Jack Jones carried this attackon policy into personal vituperation. "I do not want to be rude," he said, "but one could quickly misconstrue the word 'Dulles' into 'dull ass...
...McCarthy is so weak and unpopular ass you claim, why is he a menace? . . .First you bring him to "menace" proportions to distract us from the fact there were Reds in the Government, and then try to pooh pooh him away when this purpose has been accomplished...
...General' Sherman was even more explicit in a letter to James G Elaine: "... I would account myself a fool, a madman, an ass, to embark now, at 65 years of age, in a career that may at any moment become tempestuous...
Fool! Donkey! Ass!" Papa Wiener was a character in his own right. Omnivorous scholar, fanatical Tolstoyan rigid vegetarian, amateur farmer and heterodox Slavic philologist, Bialystok-born Leo Wiener was an austere and aloof yet somehow lovable paterfamilias. Papa was dissatisfied with ordinary schools and instructed Norbert personally until the boy went to high school. Papa, a good teacher was also an irascible man, and whenever Norbert stumbled, there would come streaming down upon him a flood of invective in German: "Fool! Donkey! Ass...
...Mark Fallon, the therapeutic gambler who gives a rapid fire Freudian analysis between kisses to Angelica Durean (Piper Laurie), Tyrone Power is insufferable enough to have even his love exclaim, "you egotistical ass." Having Piper Laurie around is never unpleasant, but if you come to see her act you had better stay at home. Probably the most creditable actress is Julia Adams, whose unrequited love of Fallon has moments of convincing tenderness...