Word: dits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such traditional French divertissements as musical chairs and something called "le general a dit," (rough public school translation: Simon says), provided a strong existensialist atmosphere...
...London the family had been sedulously boning up on South African history, politics, economics and the Afrikaans language (they could all now say a cheery "How do you do?"-Hoe gaan dit?-to their hosts) while Britain's leading designers, Hartnell, Molyneux and Thaarup, labored feverishly on trousseaux. Fashion reporters were invited to see the new clothes but editors had to sign a solemn promise that the clothes would not be described until the royal ladies had appeared in them. Meanwhile, hints kept Britain's newspaper readers in more or less breathless anticipation...
...PEOPLE We Interrupt This Program... A San Francisco electrical engineer named D. Reginald Tibbetts was sitting up late amid the clutter of radio equipment in his bedroom. At 4:27 in the morning (P.W.T.), listening to the dit-dah-dah of fast Morse, he began transcribing a Domei News Agency broadcast: "The Japanese Government are ready to accept. . . ." At the same time, in a white frame house in Portland, Ore., an FCC monitor picked up the same exciting news -Japan was officially offering to surrender...
...five-minute prepared speech by Chief "Scotty" last week, relaying complaints from the dispensary of too much business via the basketball floor, seemingly failed to impress Company Charlie sufficiently. It took about 30 minutes by the clock until "Dit-dit-dit-da" Balmuth was carried off the floor in an improvised stretcher--sprained ankle...
...just dit-happy goons...