Word: gee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well, here we are at the big youth festival and jiminy crickets, is it something. Holy cow, you should see it. Gee whiz, yesterday there was a big peace demonstration and a million Free German youth marched, and then released doves--the birds of peace. You could even say this whole magnificent demonstration is for the birds...
Golden Boy. The lanky (6 ft. 1 in., 155 Ibs.), blond-mustached 23-year-old took over the Examiner on March 4, 1887. He subtitled his little sheet "Monarch of the Dailies," and set out, as one editor put it, "to arouse the 'gee whiz!' emotion." The Examiner's boss rushed special trains to cover out-of-town fires, ran up enormous cable tolls. He wrote boob-catching headlines like A SUNDAY SUICIDE OF A LOVESICK LOAFER. On the premise that "there is no substitute for circulation," he spent his father's money like a drunken...
...Gee, that was a swell piece, wasn't it?" Nugent remarked to the weedy stranger beside him. "I wonder who wrote it." Thurber swallowed. "I did," he said in a dim voice. Nugent stared at Thurber, then introduced himself. The two became best and lifelong friends...
When pinned down, the workmen were for the most part at a loss. As one carpenter put it, "Gee, son, they've already given them to the man I'd pick...
Maple Syrup. By mid-evening Editor Chappie's ceremony had turned into a bear hug. Big Chief Me-Gee-See, crowned with a magnificent yellow, red, white and brown headdress, stood red-faced and short of breath in a deafening din of drums, jangling sleighbells and good-will whoops. One by one, the Chippewas stomped and howled past him to bestow gifts - a buckskin vest and a beaded belt (which he put on), a huge bow and quiver of arrows (one got stuck in his headdress and had to be extricated by a helpful squaw), wild rice, maple syrup...