Word: cusses
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...cigar clenched between my teeth, my derby tilted back, knees crossed, and my back arched at a sharp angle against the back of the chair. I'd cuss at the keyboard and then caress it with endearing words; a pianist who growls, hums, and talks to the piano is a guy who is trying hard to create something for himself...
Presumably aimed at those customers who like to see the lower halves of double bills, Fort Utah never once rises above second-class status. Its covered wagon train predictably forms a circle at the first sign of Injuns, its cast mouths such ancient phrases as "you ornery cuss" and "I ain't seen hide nor hair of you." In a world of permanent revolution, it is reassuring to note that for undiscriminating moviegoers some things never change...
...Cussing & Calamity Janes. Braniff International tried to have it both ways, one day running a full-page "weight watcher's guide to Dallas" listing its low, medium-and high-calorie flights, the next day taking a two-page newspa per ad to boast about its gourmet delicacies plus special treatment for "those stubborn few who don't like perfect martinis. We let you mix your own." On its Chicago-New York flight, United was gunning for the tired businessman, with a whole plane turned into a men-only compartment, where commuting executives are free to cuss, smoke cigars...
...time when novelty in religion is becoming the new orthodoxy, the good father is trying hard to be just plain pop. A onetime atheist, he was ordained in 1955, won quick notoriety and ecclesiastical disapproval by hearing "informal" confessions in bars and writing plays peppered with cuss words. He maintains that "you've got to begin with people where they are" and feels that a bar stool can be an effective pulpit...
After Coe recovered from anesthesia, his first words were curses. Explains Neuropsychologist Aaron Smith: "Cuss words express feeling, not an idea. Communicating thoughts is more difficult." Soon Coe was able to communicate rational thoughts in short phrases. Today he still speaks slowly and leaves many sentences unfinished, but he can make himself understood unless he gets too tired...