Word: gee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technique of bargaining, bluffing, pleading and bargaining again. Years later, O'Neill was able to use his position on the committee to drive a key bargain with President Johnson. When Johnson phoned to ask him to vote for a bill that he wanted badly, O'Neill replied: "Gee, I don't know if I can be there. I'm so busy trying to save the Boston Navy Yard." Said Johnson: "Let me worry about the Boston Navy Yard. You be at that committee. I need your vote...
Columbo treats his invariably rich and stylish suspects with politeness, even deference. He apologizes for taking up their valuable time. He prattles incessantly in a New York accent that seems to be coming down with a sore throat. He gee-whizzes over their luxury houses, stopping in mid-sentence to ask ingenuously what the property taxes might be on such a splendid estate, pausing to work them out in terms of his $11,000-a-year salary. His darting, jabbing gestures carve lexicons in the air. He interrupts interrogations to rummage in pockets crammed with scrappaper reminders of marketing chores...
...case the cover-up all started three years ago, when the Pats drafted Jim Plunkett and somehow pulled off a quasi-successful season, ending the year near the 500 mark, "Gee," my advisers counseled, "it's perfectly clear that with Plunkett this squad is the team of the future, they can't help but get better next season...
...music, says Mary Travers, late of Peter, Paul and Mary, the group that had a Top Ten hit in 1969 with Denver's Leaving on a Jet Plane: "His songs are simple and hopeful. He is a very personal, conversational singer, and he has a gee-whizzy kind of humor-which is refreshing...
When Sha Na Na first appeared in 1966, they were a fresh breath in the wasteland of the teeny-bopper-gee-I'm-heavy rock of the Sixties. If Friday's performance is any indication, Sha Na Na has come a long way since then, and most of it is downhill. Sad to say, Sha Na Na seems to have made the grab for the big buck, and kissed the Magic Sound goodbye...