Word: bub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began moving ... not in a crazed swirl but along its own planes ... of light and shadows and surface not nearly so nice and smooth as plasterer Super Plaster Man intended with infallible carpenter level bubble ... not so foolproof as you thought bub, little lumps and ridges up there and lines ... like spines on crests of waves of white desert movie sand each one with MGM shadow longshot of the ominous A-rab coming up over the next crest for only the sinister Saracen can see the road and you don't know how many subplots you left up there Plaster...
Despite the burden of such a legacy, Russia is changing faster and in more ways than at any time in its history. Instead of the fiery prophet Lenin, the obsessed and brutal Stalin or the bub bly and unpredictable Khrushchev, it is led today by an oligarchy of sober, cautious bureaucrats who embody the country's new striving for respectability. Under the aegis of Premier Aleksei Nikolaevich Kosygin, 63, whose hound-dog countenance is better known in the West than the two or three others with whom he shares power, the government is experimenting with economic liberalization and cautiously...
Once the hub-bub was quieted a local official introduced Kennedy, shyly, as though the very act of introduction was a mark of disrespect. The senator walked forward. A less literal age would have declared that the women, youngest to oldest, swooned when he appeared. Perhaps they did not swoon, but they did lean forward, and clap and some just laughed...
...boyishly eager to inherit his epaulets. Walter is a bit of a bully who takes after his boodle-grabbing, dirndl-lifting father, the local Nazi Kreisleiter, but even so is devoted to his devoted mother. Karl, son of the town's beauty-parlor proprietor, is an awkward, intense Bub who discovers to his horror that the girl he worships is his father's mistress. Klaus is a charming mooncalf, innocently in love with a pretty schoolgirl...
...been more critical of some sources and more revealing in etymology. For instance, no attempt is made to trace the origin of that wonder word "viggerish." There are other omissions; how did they ever miss such expressions as on the q.t., go pound sand (meaning "The hell with you, bub"), sitzfleisch (perseverance), penobscot (falsie), fen (well known to every boy who ever played marbles), screech (rotgut), or that masterpiece of imaginative profanity, the blivit (a term of personal description usually defined...