Word: bein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles' Queen of Angels Hospital, Mickey was bitter: "Them guys was just mad-dog punks," he declared. "How any human bein' can fire bullets into a crowd of people beats me. They're animals. They ain't human...
Washington Monument. Said Biographer Freeman, in Richmond, where he is at work on Volume III: "Washington did not himself climb up on a marble pedestal, strike a pose and stay there. What we're goin' to do, please God, is to make him a human bein'. The great big thing stamped across that man is character...
Exasperation. "Every day on the radio," said Mrs. Noggins recently, "people are told they're a factor in some new crisis or other. I tell you, I'm awful tired of bein' a factor. I jest want to be a 'uman bein' for a change...
...After the legislature convened they jammed the galleries, carrying paper bags full of lunch. They jostled each other, talked loudly, and spat tobacco juice on the marble walls. They damned Governor Arnall. Bawled one: "Say, did you hear they give Arnall a medal at Noo Orleens for bein' the biggest nigger-lovin' governor Georgy ever had?" As the session dragged on, many took off their coats and slept...
Lawrence: "The trouble with us we are bein' ruled by tired middle-aged people . . . here in Europe they are ruled by the young or by the old, and by God they're right, young ones can make fools of themselves that's all right, and old ones if they are old enough to be really old they got the energy of being old, but I tell you . . . nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged...