Word: cud
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Braz rambles a good bit. He often seems more interested in chewing his philosophical cud than in telling his story. He will drop everything else for an epigram. Samples: "We kill time; time buries us." "One endures with patience the pain in the other fellow's stomach." From his ghost world, he sums up his life on earth as a zero. He has one" satisfaction: "I had no progeny, I transmitted to no one the legacy of our misery." That, Braz figures, makes him a "small winner...
...Suppose ye was standin' at th' corner iv State Sthreet and Archey R-road," Mr. Dooley mused. "Wud ye know what car to take to get to th' Ph'lippeens? If yer son Packy was to ask ye where th' Ph'lippeens is, cud ye give him anny good idea whether they was in Rooshia or jus' west iv th' thracks? . . . An' what shud I do with the Ph'lippeens? ... I can't annex thim because I don't know where they...
...Cud for Historians. The Hinge of Fate covers the period December 1941-June 1943. Already it is clear that more than any other individual thus far-whether participant, recorder, or pure raconteur-Writer Churchill has given historians their richest cud to chew. No man, not even F.D.R. or Stalin, was so central to events or so frequently determined their course. If his history is not the last word on the events it describes, it is certainly the best foundation now in sight for the last word when it is written...