Word: dern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Course you probably won't take none of our advice--allus hev to larn the hard way--but don't come whinnying to us if you get a saddle burn. The old Lazy H is one o' the best spreads agoin' 'round these parts, dern few fences and a heap of ground fer roamin'. You'll all be stabled up at the Yard the fust year, but outside o' thet yore branding is up to yoreselves...
That is not the sort of achievement which could have been expected under the political Secretaries who preceded Stimson-men like Weeks, Good, Hurley, Dern, Woodring. Most of the political department heads either meddled witlessly or let the Army run itself while they busied themselves with other things...
...Postmaster General under Herbert Hoover, had granted lush mail-subsidy contracts to major airlines, had thus evaded the law requiring competitive bidding for Government contracts. The President did not wait to ask questions. He called in Postmaster General Farley, Attorney General Cummings, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Secretary of War Dern. Then he canceled the airmail contracts and ordered the Army to take over the flying of the U.S. mail until a new contract-subsidy system had been worked...
...Look at those Dern Elis Sprole all over the Bowl when our blockers take Potts shots at 'em. The way our tackle hits the Brooks, you'd think he could Reid, and our ends have been Harrison the Bulldog passer and knocking him Zilly on every play. The game shapes up as Mosely a one-sided affair to me, though it might be close. We'll either Knapp them at the tape or Ellis it'll be a slaughter...