Word: eels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...item "Greyed Eel to Be Said": Although BBC announcers may have their own enunciatory peculiarities, they're not alone in this respect. Right here in the U.S. one can find some equally puzzling variations. Samples...
...Greyed Eel-a large amount...
...Good Eel-a fair amount...
Reserves: Jake, Bare, Eel, Ice, Sweat, Nip, Sacks, Bratley, DAR, Royce, Rolls, Corny, Gwitrtzberg, Reaves...
...irritant is the fact that The Blue Hussar's characters take turns holding the stage, so that the story is served up like chunks hacked from a live eel. But the chunks keep squirming, and at the end they have almost grown together again. Author Nimier's hussars are a rough, vulgar, boisterous lot with little in common except being French and in the same outfit. Politically, they are a mixed bag of Communists, Gaullists, Petainists and what not; some of them hate each other more than they hate the enemy. But in spite of their petty feuds...