Word: cuss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hoover and a dour, purse-mouthed Calvin Coolidge, which now hangs in the White House Green Room. Roared Oliver Wendell Holmes, on seeing his own leonine likeness: "That is not I, but perhaps it is just as well that people should think it is. How did the damned little cuss...
Although such forthrightness helped reduce race trouble in northeast North Carolina-it remains remarkably free of it to this day-it only heightened the Independent's unpopularity. In a backhanded compliment, the State Port Pilot over in Brunswick County raised this brag to its masthead: "Most Cussed Newspaper in North Carolina, Outside of Elizabeth City" The Independent ultimately commanded a paid audience of 6,000 spread over 30 states, but it went virtually adless for years at a stretch, fought a losing lifelong battle against financial failure. In 1937, after Editor Saunders tried unsuccessfully to convert the Independent...
Many a laryngectomee begins esophageal speech with cuss words, which have the advantage of being monosyllabic and explosive. Says Mrs. Doehler: "I often tell a man to say 'Damn!' It helps him to relax." One way or another, Mrs. Doehler and her dedicated colleagues have taught esophageal speech to about half of the estimated 20,000 U.S. laryngectomees...
...made it clear that Jamaica will remain in the orbit of the free world. "We are pro-American," he said staunchly. But he ducked questions about possible trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba, only 90 miles to the north. Perhaps he had in mind an old Jamaican proverb: "No cuss alligator' long mout' till you cross riber...
Nkrumah's conference of "freedom fighters" turned out to be another dreary, anachronistic round of anticolonial, anti-imperialist speeches preaching "freedom" on a continent already largely free from colonial rule. The Common Market of Europe was Nkrumah's new cuss word ("neo-colonialism"), and NATO was also dragged in for critical comment. Although his own country is impoverished, the dictator promised lots of money to potential allies. Nkrumah's party paper dubbed him Africahene (King of Africa) to top all his other self-bestowed titles, including Osagyefo (Redeemer) and Asomdwehene (King of Peace...