Word: cussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marine fighter pilot in World War II, a Medal of Honor winner, a two-term Governor of South Dakota. Apart from the fact that his strongest cuss word is "criminy," there is nothing about Joe Foss, 50, to suggest that he is a pushover. Yet that is apparently what the owners of the American Football League figured after they elected him commissioner in 1959. They wheeled and dealed behind his back-maneuvering franchises, swapping players, conducting secret, premature drafts of college prospects...
...Gimmicks. There is an almost machinelike singlemindedness about him. His most vehement cuss words are "darn" and "dad-gum." A jut-jawed six-footer, he never smokes, drinks little, swims and plays tennis to remain at a flat-bellied 180 Ibs.-only 10 Ibs. over his cadet weight. Says Major General Richard Stilwell, commander of the U.S. Military Advisory Group in Thailand: "He has no gimmicks, no hand grenades or pearl-handled pistols. He's just a very straightforward, determined man." Few who know him doubt that he will some day be Army Chief of Staff...
...from his given name, Billy, has never taken it back. Not all of the paper's hands found the scholarly-looking cub a welcome addition. "Just what we needed," grumbled one. "A part-time college boy with neither whisky nor whiskers-one you can't even cuss in front...
LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). Historian Arnold Toynbee and University of Chicago History Department Chairman William H. McNeill dis cuss whether religion can promote mankind's adjustment to technological, social and political changes...
...keep using his name in the strip, hoping that he will write to me. But he never does." Neither he nor Joyce drinks, smokes or swears. Like his creation Charlie Brown, who never uses an expletive stronger than "Good grief!" Schulz insists: "I've never used a cuss word in my life. I don't even like ugly words like stink or fink. Perhaps I'm just ridiculously sensitive." He believes that "comic-strip artists have a responsibility to be uplifting and decent. This is not difficult. My book, Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, is completely innocent...