Word: awful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about McNamara's resulting bruises. "Bob won't get out of the way," he says, "so what can I do? I gotta get my shot." Despite Freeman's determination, McNamara wins about three games out of every five, and Freeman walks off the court muttering disgustedly: "Aw, shucks!" But a couple of days later, he is back for more...
While the children are busy playing peekaBoo, Atticus acquires a more substantial nightmare. He agrees to defend a Negro (Brock Peters) accused of assaulting a white girl. "Whuh kine a man aw yew?" the girl's father (James Anderson) snarls at Atticus. In court he proves his client's innocence, but the jury convicts the Negro anyway; and when he tries to escape, a guard shoots him dead. Nor is the nightmare ended even then. The girl's father, a vicious redneck with more whisky in his stumphole than brains in his head, goes stalking Scout...
...make sure that they did, he published most of them in his book City Editor. "Pick adjectives,'' he said, "as you would pick a diamond or a mistress." He defined the newsroom as "part seminary, part abattoir," divided all sportswriters into two schools: "Gee Whiz!" and "Aw Nuts!" Freud was "that Daniel Boone of the canebrakes of the libido," New York's fiery Mayor La Guardia a man who would "bite in the clinches," the reading public a "drowsy, dangerous dinosaur." For working journalists, he boiled the Ten Commandments to two: "Do not betray a confidence...
...that was hardly calculated to inspire confidence in the camp of his Democratic opponent, Congressman Sidney R. Yates, 53, a faithful Frontiersman. According to the Dirksen tale, President Kennedy at the end of the White House meeting asked Ev how he was doing in Illinois. Dirksen gravely expressed doubts. "Aw," laughed the President, "what are you worried about...
...that Mulberry Foxhall shared Hank's cell under the name of Pete Malloy. To insure that the marriage will go on, and to gain partnership in Smith's business, Mulberry threatens blackmail. By this time, it would seem that truth and justice and virtue are hopelessly ensnared in the awful net of urban business, but Osgood arrives on the scene just in time to overpower Mulberry, discover on his person the stolen jewels of Smith's daughter, and give Mulberry the grand boot. Milly is deliriously grateful, but Osgood modestly puts her off with the words, "Aw shucks, Milly...