Word: cussedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No Magic In Union. In the U.S. a belief was growing that 1) all of West Europe's economic ills would cease overnight if integration could be brought about; 2) what held up integration was the cussed stubbornness and shortsightedness of European politicians. The view did not fit the...
For more than an hour, Witkowski clung; to it, while people shouted, swirled and cussed around him. Some wanted to open the box right there: they suspected it had a secret inner panel. Finally Assistant Prosecutor Abraham Sepenuk showed up and agreed to impound it for grand-jury examination.
In the high-collar areas of Boston, Frederic C. Dumaine flaunted an open-shirt background, cussed a blue streak, and walked with a bearlike roll. But by many a shrewd and ruthless financial coup, he climbed to the top of Boston's moneyed oligarchy, bossed the Amoskeag textile mills...
35. Cussed and discussed by men and women alike was "The New Look" in fashion which calls for all but one of these:
In a sulphurous meeting in Washington last week, 50 of the nation's biggest mule dealers cussed in concert as only men who have mingled with mules can cuss. They mentioned, in various uncomplimentary ways, the U.S. Government, the Department of Agriculture and the Mexican Government. But they saved...