Word: gab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some English teachers labor under the illusion that college students speak English. Dr. Lalia Phipps Boone of the University of Florida knows better: she keeps her ears open outside the classroom. In American Speech she records the exotic gab used by her students when they stop talking for professorial consumption...
Even Imlach concedes that he fired up his team chiefly with gab and hard work. But he also got sulky Winger Frank Mahovlich to begin hustling and himself turned up two new Leaf forwards-Larry Regan obtained from the Bruins and Gerry Ehman from Hershey. They scored the big goals in the stretch drive and against Boston. Long-starved Leaf fans suddenly became fanatics. Radios were installed in hospital delivery rooms. For the final series against Montreal, scores were announced during Parliament proceedings...
...story of a child who witnesses a crime and cannot make the adult world understand has been written before, but rarely so well. Devil by the Sea is the season's most chilling tale, and British Novelist Bawden tells it with the devil's own gift of gab and style. She can charm as well as chill. The innocent childhood scenes she sets down, in contrast to the mounting horror in the background, are as engaging as any of the beach idyls sketched by Lewis Carroll...
Gabriel's Gab. As is proper for the hero of his own story, Behan went to his hard school in obedience to family tradition; like his father before him, he was a member of the Irish Republican Army. At 16, in 1939, he traveled to England with the intention of blowing up the battleship King George V. After less than a week and nothing blown up, British po; lice caught Brendan with the explosive goods on him in a Liverpool slum tenement. At Borstal, one of the "screws" (warders) showed a keen sense of British affection for unsuccessful revolutionaries...
Several qualities combine to make Bad Boy Behan's book a pleasant exception in the usually dreary field of schoolboy or prison reminiscence. He has Gabriel's own gift of the gab, a cold eye for himself, a warm heart for others, and the narrative speed of a tinker. On the whole, he also makes good his claim to "a sense of humour that would nearly cause me to burst out laughing at my own funeral, providing...