Word: bummed
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...that may sound funny to you. You can make just as many boners in their eyes. It isn't a good idea, for instance, to say 'bloody' in mixed company-it is one of their worst swear words. To say: 'I look like a bum' is offensive in their ears, for to the British this means that you look like your own backside...
...card holders alike were forced to take a trolley, pack into a bus, bum rides or walk...
...door, and said: "Get ashamed of myself every time I see those guys. Risk their lives every day. And me? I'm supposed to be a naval officer, and they won't let me go to sea!" He wore spectacles, and after a pause he added: "Bum eyes. They threw me out of the American Navy." His voice was harsh and bitter...
...since April. The "sergeant pilot," Robert Poynter, another Detroit boy, had worked for Hudson, had enlisted in Canada in the Polish armed forces in November 1941, but had been taken home by his parents as underage. On his 20th birthday he enlisted again, was honorably discharged. He started to bum around, met Albert. "We had to say something," said "Gunner" Albert...
Somebody had given Mrs. Isbelle and the News a bum steer. Armed with letters from the War Department, Sam Rayburn entrained for Texas. At Sulphur Springs, to 2,500 cheering, stomping Administration backers, he gave his answer...