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Word: bejesus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where Wallace is hurting." To avoid building up the Alabamian, Nixon last week rejected a three-way debate among the major candidates. "I still think the best tactic is for us to ignore Wallace," Nixon told an aide. Besides, he added, "in a debate, he can kick the living bejesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: FAINT ECHOES OF '48 | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...four inventive young Englishmen, two of them Oxford graduates, two from Cambridge, all of whom are no older than twenty-eight. The four are Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, and they have devised a series of satiric sketches--which they themselves perform--that razz the bejesus out of the Establishment, the Church, coal miners, pansies, the London Transport Board, Ludwig Beethoven, African nationalists, the Bomb, Harold Macmillan, World War II, William Shakespeare, and sundry other subjects of similar import and relevance to modern existence. The tone is radical and very youthful (although not doctrinaire...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Beyond the Fringe | 10/10/1962 | See Source »

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