Word: cud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play. Essentially, Happy Days is a monologue by a compulsive talker. A strident school bell signals the times when Winnie must wake and sleep; in between comes the terrible recess of endurance, the "happy day" to be survived. She utters a prayer, sings a song, chews the nostalgic cud of memory. Actress Ruth White, though she plays her role with more gallantry than Beckett's morgue-attendant austerities call for, stars vocally: she croons, keens, gurgles, fumes and screams at her all-but-silent partner. A bottomless black shopping bag provides the day's events. Finding a toothbrush...
...find stirring quotes elsewhere ("I'm no good at answering questions"), and declined to say a single word about the pennant. One frustrated reporter finally asked Murtaugh if he would admit Easter would fall on Sunday next year. "I dunno," said Pittsburgh's Danny Murtaugh, shifting his cud. "There was a fella once who changed the date of Thanksgiving...