Word: bless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sexes. Not only a disappointment, but a damn fool. His lack of ingenuity in realizing the possibilities for the energetic woman in this society or the next is only overshadowed by his stubbornness in clinging to female role-models that would seem Victorian to his Mother, God bless her and probably fascist to his ex-wives, God bless them, all four of them...
There are new frills, to be sure. The whisky priests now come to bless Buicks in return for booze, and the downtown businessman's chapel has a huge garage underneath. But as the author well knows, the pot has not quite melted yet and the smart satirist keeps going back for nuggets...
...plight of U.S. P.O.W.s, and of how little this country has done to help them prior to the raid on Son Tay. If one thing is more heartbreaking than the experiences of the wives and families of the P.O.W.s, it is the story of the prisoners themselves. God bless the men who conceived and carried out the raid. Let's hope that next time they will be successful...
...Nixon and Agnew find her great, let them enjoy their freedom to do so. But what does she stand for? What has she done to be taken seriously or worthy of our time? Do you mean to suggest that she is a representative of the Washington wives? God bless this country and Washington! Do you suggest that she provides the badly needed lighter vein for the whole nation? If so, you should ask the editor of Mad to handle...
...with Agathon, not because he is a fashionable anti-hero, but because he approaches life with such zest that his enthusiasm is contagious. He cannot contain himself when he sees an old lady taking a shit in the woods, and has to come up behind her and whisper, "God bless you!" His reaction to death is "Whooee am I scared!" He tries to think of some last, solemn, sententious word, and comes up with "Cocklebur...