Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dulles had a major role in writing the 1947 law that set up the CIA, and in 1950, its director, Walter Bedell Smith, asked him to come to Washington to talk over revisions in the agency's structure. "I went to Washington intending to stay six weeks," Dulles remembered. "I remained with the CIA for eleven years." He became a deputy director in 1951, CIA boss two years later...
...more than half a century, their humor has come largely out of their exotic argot. It is their link now with a more exciting, more amusing past. We went back next morning to the house of the old man who spoke the language. His name is Phocian McGimsey, but everybody calls him Levi. He is 73. His grandfather came West to Boonville in 1852. He told us that the language is "Boontling," which is a corruption of Boonville Lingo. In English sprinkled with Boontling, Levi described what Boonville was like in those days: a rough frontier town first settled...
...sudden change in the weather. That was too big a disaster just to report baldly, so they would say "That frigid perel [cold rain, which resembles little pearls] made many white spots [dead lambs]. There'll be nemer croppies [no more sheep, which crop the grass] come boche season [boche, meaning deer, is derived from a Pomo word...
...past year, the un easiness of Spain's military leaders had come to focus on five major areas: the press, the lawyers, labor, the church and the universities...
...public toilet, and a peasant lying on the ground, his face blue, no longer breathing. These people were members of a production brigade of one of Dairen's suburban communes, who had heeded Chairman Mao's great call to grasp revolution and boost production, and had come into the city to collect manure...