Word: backtalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spoonerisms,"† and familiar fables in a gobbledygook of backtalk. (Examples: the Pee Little Thrigs, Wink van Ripple, the Beeping Sleauty, Paul Revide's Rear...
...famously together on this point. I should like to recall one other sentence from that speech: we shall not succeed in our desperately important postwar peace plans by "a snarling process of international recrimination in which every United Nation's capital tries to outdo the other in bitter backtalk about the infirmities of each." I earnestly suggest a moratorium by all concerned until we can sit down together in mutual good faith and try to discover "what's what." A. H. VANDENBERG United States Senate Washington...