Word: bloomin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Stoke heard about it, anger swept through the city of fire and earth. The people liked this squarejawed, plain-speaking American. If he wanted to be one of them, why, no bloke in any bloomin' office up in London had a right to interfere. Three hundred petitions ("We, the undersigned constituents of the Potteries towns . . . record our protest . . .") circulated throughout the Five Towns, bore 10,000 signatures by last week...
...Blimey, wotta army!" exclaimed a wizened British corporal, just back from the Middle East, as he looked at bemedaled U.S. soldiers in London's streets, "Every bloomin...
...Richard Breen, the show included a skit by an unknown radio expert, who explained the mysteries of how to oscillate waves, with blackboard drawings to match. He was followed on the all-star bill by Bos'n Pen land giving a bewildered account of a baseball game in "the bloomin' yonkee stadium...
...soldiers soon discovered who Mr. Bullfinch was. "Blimey, it's Winnie," they said. "Winnie's come out into the bloomin' desert." "Hey, Winnie," shouted Private Stanley Collins, an Australian, "Have you got a spare cigar?" Winnie handed over a fragrant Hoyo de Monterrey...