Word: awful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship, and they soon became the machine's "real soul." Sometimes he would think of his family and feel homesick. Once he told General Chennault that he wished he could just press a button that would kill all the Japs and let the squadron go home. "Aw now, Scotty," said the General, "we don't want to do that. . . . Think of how much fun it is to kill them slow...
...they sit in other booths and the like. Do you gape over here?--heck no! There are whole mess of swellegent gals to dance with over there. In fact--and form a single line for this one willya--the girls have been outnumbering the men. Are they nice? Aw, heck, I've done enough suggesting already--just drop over and find out for yourself! They are really swell looking gals--every one of 'em--and you've got our guarantee to that...
...well costumed were the actors who took female roles in the production that most of the audience was deceived as to their sex for a long time. When they learned the truth there was much complaining on all sides, a typical remark being, "Aw gee, we didn't think it was them kind of blondes." One poor confused selectee even went so far as to proffer a bouquet of flowers to the leading "lady," Dick Whittemore...
...trend of American journalism away from the ancient canon of "the whole truth and nothing but the truth," small wonder that many readers--those who can afford it--subscribe to more than one paper for a balanced news diet, and that America's most popular cliche, has become "Aw, it's a lot of propaganda...
...main fear: loss of profitable petroleum, coal and automobile traffic (on the assumption that a new transport medium will divert more traffic than it will generate). Last week an 85-year-old pro-Seaway lobbyist (for Minnesota) named J. Adam Bede, who was a Congressman in 1903-09, remarked: "Aw, I've heard all this before. ... I remember when the railroad people testified that the transcontinental rails would turn to rust if we built the Panama Canal." But like the Panama Canal, the Seaway would cut transportation costs. Proponents have argued, for example, that automobiles might move from Detroit...