Word: doubleyou
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor John "Doubleyou" Bricker, the Sage of the Midwest, has come out with a statement that is a masterpiece of political sophistry. "America is not, has never been and will never be an isolationist nation." Bricker, whose bid for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination has the cager support of that old internationalist, Senator Robert A. Taft, thus neatly evaded committing himself on the question of isolationism by refusing to recognize its existence. An observer unblinded by the necessities of political conciliation might perceive that isolationism was, is now, and will be a matter of burning moment for a great sector...
...know. Betty came, and was surprised, that neither Sir nor Madam could tell what yf was. 'Why,' says she, 'y f spells Wife; what else can it spell?' And, indeed, it is a much better, as well as shorter method of spelling Wife, than by doubleyou, i, ef, e, which in reality spells doubleyifey...
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