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Word: cusses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mere 113 Ibs., tosses her burnished, straw-colored hair in a girlish bob, and gazes at the world through clear hazel eyes. In a medium where pose and posture are the standards, she is almosl startlingly forthright. Painfully self-conscious under scrutiny, uninhibited among close friends, Barbara can cuss like a longshoreman and make it sound as offhand as a schoolgirl's "Jeepers." The effect of such artlessness on the stage is to make practically anything Barbara does seem credible and convincing. One mark of her real talent lies in the fact that she can be herself and still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Rising Star | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...getting a lot from classes too. For example, there's a prof named Fritz Roethlisberger who teaches Human Relations. That means how to get an ornery cuss to do something your way instead...

Author: By William J. Lederer commander, | Title: Bill Learns How to Pull Leg Of Cadillac Driver at Harvard | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

...program for organizing benevolence from Whitehall­Sir Charles knows his way around a bureaucracy. But Armitage feels obsolete. "All now was duty, nothing was love," Author Bentley has him reflect. "He was called vermin by a Cabinet Minister and told he did not matter a tinker's cuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yorkshire Contrasts | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

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