Word: cussin
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With all the barefooted kids, the moonshine, the crawling alligators, the cussin' and fightin' Harrises, Yankee sportswriters were a happy bunch, and Roy Harris began to sound as though he might be a fair country fighter-at least good enough to challenge the so-so Patterson. Happiest of all was TelePrompTer President Irving Kahn, who wants to sell 500,000 theater seats across the nation to cash in on his deal of an exclusive closed-circuit TV show of the Patterson-Harris fight, now seems in a fair...
Died. Mrs. Martha ("Mattie") Louise Munger Black, 91, sharp-witted onetime Tory member of Canada's Parliament, hard cussin' ("I'm no lady"), Chicago-born "first lady of the Yukon," who took off for the Klondike gold fields in 1898, prospected, managed a sawmill, was elected an M.P. from the Yukon in 1935; after long illness; in Whitehorse, Yukon...
...Cussin' Cozzens...
...Then] an old Hardshell preacher* come a-walkin in out of nowhar in the dark, with his mouth mortised into his face in a shape like a mule's hoof, heels down. . . . Like all Hardshells, he was dead agin women and lovely sounds and motions and dancin and cussin and kissin. [But] the whiskey part of the frolic he had nothin agin...
...Mebbe it's because we all know that Jesse warn't really a bad man and a killer. What could a feller do when them blasted railroads robbed you of your lawful own, and then killed your poor old mother? And mebbe it's just because he was the cussin'est, dad-blame-dest, boldest buckaroo which ever come from Missouri...