Word: gadding
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...Henley, Sir Geoffrey came upon a strange sight. A slim figure was moving along the bank, methodically measuring with a length of chain. Peering through the grey English drizzle, Sir Geoffrey recognized Nikolai Kolosovsky, coxswain of the crack Russian Eight that was entered in the Henley Royal Regatta. "By gad," exploded Sir Geoffrey, "they're checking the course! These Russians! They are incredible-efficiency in the extreme." The Russian oarsmen are not only efficient, they are good. Included in the first Russian squad, Czarist or Soviet, ever sent to the 125-year-old Henley classic are the fine eight...
When Colonel Blimp opened one of his favorite papers one day last week-the Tory Evening Standard-he got an eye-bugging jolt. Gad, sir, the Standard seemed to have an odd new contributor: hell-raising Laborite Aneurin Bevan, who once called the Conservative press "the most prostituted in the world...
...Gad, sirs, your error is almost as bad as making tea without warming the pot first, or expecting the beer here to be cold...
...euphonious and mouth-filling "pusillanimously cries for quarter" as it has stood in the Articles for the Government of the Navy (better known as "Rocks and Shoals") since the days of John Paul Jones, to the puny, emasculated, bilgewater phrase, "guilty of cowardly conduct" [TIME, June 11]. By Gad, Sir! That's going...
...balmy afternoon, the cyclist can see the old-world North End of Boston, and historic churches and churchyards; or he can gad about the local colleges, such as MIT, Boston College, and Simmons. The U. S. Frigate Constitution--"Old Ironsides"--is open to the public gaze in the Boston Navy Yard...