Word: gee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feels this cycle more than the Dudley House Committee. "If Dudley House students were more active we think it would be easy to go to the University and ask for more money. But then students come to you and say gee we'ld like to be more active but get more money first," says Dudley's Colarossi...
...Ralph: Gee, that's great, Wanda. With these books you can conduct entire marital conversations all by yourself. Just think, you can have a meaningful dialogue, in a marriage-saving manner, even before I get home...
...eager high school senior with the chipmunk grin who still contemplates the world as if he were seeing it for the first time. "My four daughters are grown up," he says, "and I'm a grandfather three times. But I'm still one of those oversize kids who say Gee whiz! I say it at least twice...
...vocabularies they had heard so many times on television beaming in from their weightless heroes. "That's affirmative," one camper would say, all business, laconic: "You are a go for nominal de-orbit burn." They caught just right the astronaut's modulations of stoical understatement and occasional jubilant gee whiz. "We're bringin' this bird home!" the commander of one mission cried when he was go for re-entry...
...sound of Big Ben, Minister of Munitions Winston Churchill finds his mind straying "back across the scarring years." A 16- year-old farm boy named Charles Lindbergh is free to buy a war-surplus "Flying Jenny." Wounded Ambulance Driver Ernest Hemingway, recalling a successful offensive in Italy, writes home: "Gee but it was great though to end it with such a victory!" Omar Bradley, a 25-year-old Army officer stuck at a post in Iowa, morosely hears the whistle blasts, certain that he is "professionally ruined." In the censorship section of the Liverpool post office, J.C. Silber listens...