Word: cussedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The American soldiers of our rescue party cussed . . . with open admiration. . . . One of them said, "God, but.these Limies have got guts!"
Relatives of Mark Twain last week began giving the world a new, important and frequently unflattering load of Twainiana. The Atlantic Monthly published the first of four articles based on letters (they go back to 1853 when Twain was 18) which Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote to members of his family...
When a mule cart blocked his armored car outside Adano, General Marvin ordered the cart tipped off the road. When the terrified mule began to scream, the General ordered it shot. When his staff officers objected, thinking of the effect on the townspeople of Adano, the General damned them up...
The isolated incident quickly became two. Bellicose Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. had degraded another enlisted man. Private Charles Herman Kuhl had written home to Indiana: "General Patton slapped my face yesterday and kicked me in the pants and cussed me." Kuhl, like the unnamed artilleryman whose slapping precipitated...
> Cussed a U.S. Army Headquarters dictum that required a three-month cooling-off period for soldiers who want to marry British girls.