Word: gee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman from Newton turned to her friends and said, "Gee I feel awful. Did you get some dinner? I've got cold chicken in the icebox." For those without the icebox and the chicken, exams begin Friday...
...daughter of an Altoona, Pa., insurance agent, Elaine Shaffer got her first musical experience as a tympanist in her high school orchestra. "There wasn't much to do there behind the kettledrums," she recalls. "Then I noticed that the flutes were always busy, and gee, they got to play in the band at football games." She bought a flute and an instruction book and taught herself to play. Upon graduation, having become a Kincaid admirer through recordings, she auditioned for him, and was promptly enrolled as his pupil at the Curtis Institute of Music. Four years later she landed...
...there more? Is there some stirring of human imagination that goes beyond the gee-whiz of the spectator or the sentiment of the nostalgia buff? One need go no farther than the astronauts themselves for the answer. "I am not the same man," Rusty Schweickart says. "None of us are." The Apollo veterans have become poets, seers, preachers, all of them evangelists for the privileged vision from space that Edgar Mitchell calls "instant global consciousness." It is no coincidence that the ecologists' concept of Spaceship Earth has become a commonplace in the years of Apollo...
Eyes shut, up on stage, Reverend Ike is having a vision: "I see myself . . . successful-prosperous-with money-and now, in my imagination, I open my . . . bankbook. Wowwwww! Gee. I paid all my bills and still I have that . . . terrific balance. Boy . . . that's a sharp car . . . It rides so easily: zooop! And now, here I am . . . on a . . . vacation. Here I am, on this beautiful beach . . . the water . . . coool . . . and later . . . room service? You have any good steaks down there? Yes . . . send up a nice T-bone . . . and a nice salad . . . and . . . a strawberry shortcake...
Asked to predict the outcome of the match, which will be held at 1 P.m. in the Indoor Athletic Building, John H. Lee, coach of the wrestling team, said yesterday, "Oh gee, it's awful hard to say, I don't know who they have...