Word: funke
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When Divine unfreezes and goes on with the game, he knows that "of course he had been dreaming." And besides, what could anyone do? Yet he dabs at his dinner that evening, stumbles away to his cabin in a funk...
...Also in Fred Rentschler's class ('09): Judge Harold Medina, Samuel (Captain from Castile) Shellabarger, Publisher Wilfred J. Funk and onetime Assistant Secretary of State Norman Armour...
Evocative, humid, esoteric, synoptic anecdote-where does Mandel get this stuff? It sounds like he's been sitting up all night with Thirty Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, by Dr. Wilfred Funk...
...long, critical years of interminable negotiating, Acheson and the foreign ministers had reached agreement at Brussels on military unity, and picked a supreme commander to lead a skeleton army. Western Europeans were war-weary, right next door to the enemy, and had good reason to be in a funk. The question was whether a different Secretary of State might have done more to rally them...
...fourth leader rejects the insinuation, by a Czech correspondent, that Britain is in a complete funk because its citizens usually answer the question, . "How are you?" with, "It could be worse." The Times explains that the phrase is not a sign of discouragement at all. Fully expanded, it means: " 'Here am I, a man like other men, with rather more health and rather less money than most-or the other way round-neither expecting nor deserving the smile of fortune. Income tax is nine shillings in the pound; there is a depression approaching from the Azores; and I have...