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...they are refusing, of cuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOWER SLOBBOVIA: Escape from Utopia | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...nearly 40 years ago, shaggy-haired Hiram Conibear, ex-trainer of the Chicago White Sox, stood on the shore of Lake Washington and cussed through a megaphone, so loud that his University of Washington oarsmen could hear. When parents objected, Conibear confessed: "I have to cuss a little in order to bluff my way along." Washington's new crew coach didn't know the first thing about rowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Sweep for Conibear | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...should be created. And when Dr. Parran suggested that about ten years would be required to spend the $100,000,000, crusty Representative Matthew Mansfield ("Matt") Neely, co-author of the bill, exploded: "We have got to stop piddling around with cancer research. ... I don't care a cuss if the Public Health Service or Harvard College gets the money, if someone will just do what Roosevelt and Churchill did to solve the atomic bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War on Cancer | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...moral of Dr. Wilmer's story: syphilis can be cured if caught early and treated adequately. But the author's deft cartooning somehow defeats his lofty medical purpose. Corky emerges as such a dashing, ingenious little cuss that perverse readers may find him the hero of the piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Old Blood Stream | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Money Player. Politicians soon learned to respect her: she could drink, battle, cuss and connive with the best of them, outspend practically all of them. Uvalde's white-browed John Nance Garner became her great & good friend-in & out of smoke-filled rooms, they understood each other. She made quadrennial $25,000 donations to national campaigns, but know-how, not money, worked her up to national committeewoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Empress Clara | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

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