Word: bein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forgotten, not by a long shot. The boat-ownin' toffs of England start thinkin' of 'is well-bein', an' they set off by the thousands to 'elp bring back the lads off the beaches. Sorry day for Blighty, all right. Only one boat makes it across without bein' blown up, and when she gets there, this 'ere corporal and 'is five men 'itch a ride 'ome off 'er without hardly any of the other 100,000 poor bleeders on the beach even stirrin' off their arsenal...
...Barometricize the tropopause!" Says Lizzie: "Bunk!" But the rainmaker has an answer for that. "Lady, you're right! . . . But you gotta take my deal because once in your life you gotta take a chance." And her father goes along with that. "You gotta take a whole chance without bein' afraid of gettin' hurt or gettin' cheated or gettin' laughed...
...biggest bargain. Even in front of a losing team he wins so often that he more than earns his salary (about $60,000, including income from endorsements)-and incidentally disproves Indiana Humorist Kin Hubbard's snide crack: "Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler...
...always hated poetry a piece of paper and said, "Now, imagine you are seated at the plow. What do you see?" The result, says Richer, "was a truly beautiful poem. Every one of those kids was learning to think for himself. I thought that that was my job." Even Bein' God. Had he been willing to stick closer to grammar and spelling, all might have gone well for Richer. But he detested the regulation texts ("All workbook stuff-read the chapter, answer the questions, turn them in, then read the next chapter"), and if his pupils expressed curiosity about...
Having spent 20 years uv my life bein' razed up in the tuff atmosfere uv Clay Caounty's Brazil (pronounced bra as in brassière, z as in zebra, il as in ill), I think I can say TIME erred. The atmosfere ain't tuff, and the peepul ain't either...