Word: aw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knowledgeability to vulnerability, and does it with the same winning grace. But Redford, making his first major appearance in almost four years, is in top form. He's a knothead, trying to disguise his essentially moral nature and his native shrewdness with a lot of good-ole-boy aw shucksing. There is tension, good observation and fine comic timing in his work...
...Aw, gee whiz! Why don't we save ourselves a year of tiresome rhetoric and a lot of money too, and anoint by acclamation another of the Royal Family Kennedy as King-er, President? With Camelot II and its fun and games established in the White House we will see how well charisma can run this country. While standing in awe of the new White House occupants, we will forget our troubles of inflation, unemployment, energy shortage and high medical costs...
Baker was a fast, accurate reporter, and when someone complimented him on a story he would say, "Aw, shucks," and shrug it off. When he did time on the rewrite desk, police reporters all tried to phone in their stories to him because he could turn two purse snatchings and a dog bite into a tone poem. By the time he was 27 in 1952, he took over as the Sun bureau chief in London...
FRANK TEPEDINO. You don't remember him? Aw c'mon! Tommy Tresh, hell, he even made Rookie of the Year. No? Duke Carmel, the next DiMaggio, or Bobby Murcer, the next Mantle? Horace "Hoss" Clarke, keystone man fielding like a keystone--ricochet off the chest and take it from there--him neither? But you remember Ralph Houk, kicking the dirt; it sticks in your mind, an emblem of an era of frustration...
Jones: How many are dead? [One of the airstrip party reports that others were killed.] Aw, God, Almighty God. It's too late. They're all laying out there dead. Please, can we hasten our medication...