Word: cooingly
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...grey with sickness, he set up headquarters on Guadalcanal preparatory to the New Georgia invasion. "Terrible" Turner's bridge was a jungle clearing marked by a wooden sign: "U.S.S. Crocodile-Flagship- Amphibious Forces South Pacific." Under the scorching tropic sun, amidst the quack of bena birds and the coo of kura kura pigeons, dressed in khaki pants and shirt, he taught the new amphibious doctrine, which he was learning himself, to the officers under his heterogeneous command: air officers, marine colonels, brigadier generals, destroyer captains, PT commanders, crusty transport skippers...
...Palmolive Garbo" was David Selznick's epithet for his new property. The hard-veined, soft-souled gentlemen of the press felt differently. There was something about Miss Bergman-they clawed the air for adequate words-which made them coo and baa like fatuous old uncles. "Lunching with her," sighed Thornton Delehanty, "is like sitting down to an hour or so of conversation with a charming and highly intelligent orchid." An A.P. feature writer uttered the glad cry, "As unspoiled as a fresh Swedish snowfall." Bosley Crowther in the Times, after some startling lyricism involving a Viking's sweetheart...
Around the Robinsons perambulate some 60 other typically British characters. There is plenty of: "The blinkin' ack-ack's got 'im. The bandit's in the drink." There is plenty of "Coo, 'ere comes a blinkin' bomb." The tortoise-paced plot is full of information about England's home front...
...Park collector found two diplomats and a bobby resting on chairs. She collected the proper tuppence each from the Japs but passed the bobby by. "Coo," she muttered. "You deserve one free...
When John Lewis unexpectedly gave in, agreed to submit the dispute to arbitration, observers wondered why this roaring lion had suddenly begun to coo like a sucking dove. Some suggested a possible reason: Mr. Lewis had good reason to suppose that the arbitration board-U.S. Steel Corp. President Benjamin Fairless, Dr. John R. Steelman, head of the U.S. Conciliation Service, and John L. Lewis himself-would decide in Mr. Lewis' favor...