Word: dang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Titus Moody (Parker Fennelly) is a whey-voiced, ding-this-and-dang-that farmer with a wit hot off the general-store stove. Is his wife happy? "I don't pry into her business none." Titus' farm is "somethin' like Communism. Nobody's got nothin', but everybody's workin'." Does he like the radio? "I don't hold with furniture that talks." Titus is anemic. If cut, he will not bleed; the wound will only "hiss and pucker." Says Allen: "Titus will be getting better when the other characters have dried...
...More than 10% of the island's male citizens were musicians. Every night the little villages rang with the crash of cymbals and the brassy clang of gongs. (The five tones of the Balinese musical scale are represented by the syllables ding, dong, déng, doong and dang...
...against bovine tuberculosis. There was only one cure for it : killing all cattle who had it. John Mohler traipsed across the land, pleading with farmers to allow tuberculin tests ; ruthlessly ordering the cattle shot when the tests were positive. In those days U.S. farmers resented Federal interference heartily; no dang Gov'ment man was going to shoot their cows...
...setting up Jackson Hole Monument was the same as that followed in creating other national monuments. Now the time had come to drive the cattle to the summer ranges. On their way to the Grand Teton's slopes the ranchers kept a sharp eye out for them dang Federals. No Government officers showed up; gun play was unnecessary...
...hoodle dang fol de dydle hoodle dang...