Word: cusses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bart Gould of the Second Unitarian Church of Chicago. The Rev. Mr. Gould has a taste for the fun nuptial. At the conclusion of his own marriage ceremony in 1977, he turned to his bride, before the assembled guests, and said: "Thank you for choosing an outrageous cuss like me." He was overcome. He broke down and wept. His bride burst out laughing...
...millionaire burglar named Bernard Welch. Jones won a $5.7 million award, but the IRS has first claim on Welch's assets. Even if she never gets a penny, Jones found a different recompense. "It gives you a certain satisfaction," she says. "I never even had a chance to cuss the out . ' ' - By Bennett H. Beach. Reported by David S. Jackson/Washington and Richard Woodbury/ Denver
Billy Fulton, 25, had been a West Texas cotton farmer since 1977, when he bought 300 acres near Floydada. This year he quit. "For months," he says, "I've been trying to figure out what I did wrong. You get angry. You can cuss Reagan, you can cuss [Secretary of Agriculture John] Block, but there's no one to blame...
...students' protest did involve an ill-considered attack on Greenberg. But the object of the protest was the stifling homogeneity of a law school faculty of more than seventy professors, of whom only two are black. That protest was marked by a self-defeating and narrow-minded urge to cuss out whites. But any response to the students' demands that does not consider the larger context in which they arose is similarly narrow-minded." --Randall Kennedy The Nation, September...
...that time of the year again. Some 96 million Americans fuss, cuss and struggle with sheaves of tax forms covered by a barely penetrable typographic thicket. If the amount on line 54 of form 1040 is larger than on line 62, the citizen must pay the balance to help the Federal Government establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty. Taxes are unavoidable, but is the thicket...