Word: gobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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this is won of thowse buks witch purtens two bee the diry of a reel new england boy with speling like this, saucers is sorcers an job is gob, wile sumtimes awful is awful and sumtimes it is auful. and sometimes Henry Shute spells just like yew an mee. so yew gnow it has two bee a perfickly disengenyewus purrformince. wel awlright xcept the gokes is sumthing feerse-like piching an old lunker eal plum in the senter of the ferst Congrigasionale Chirch picknic with the wimmen timing back summersets an having spells. wonce in a wile tho, it seams...
...Equally well integrated into the film's conventions are certain conspicuous parts of the sound track, as when Leopold Bloom (Milo O'Shea) hears a cuckoo clock chanting "Cuckold! Cuckold! Cuckold!" or some barnyard noises Bloom hears in a tavern, when a greasy slab of meat falls from the gob of a man sitting near...
Success has not spoiled James Fahey. Though his gob's-eye view of battle, Pacific War Diary 1942-45 (TIME, Aug. 16) is a smash critical hit, Amateur Author Fahey, 45, is happy in his $93.20-a-week job as a Waltham, Mass., garbage man. "I won't quit my sanitation job until I have been named Garbage Man of the Year," he said lightly in an interview, for there had never been such a title. But at the magazine of the trade, the Refuse Removal Journal, the remark brought action: Fahey was duly informed that the magazine...
...must have been an officer who said that war is 5% sheer fright and 95% boredom. An enlisted man knows better. To the ordinary gob of the U.S. Navy, World War II was 90% boredom, 9% infuriating trivia, and only about 1% was composed of that combination of terror and exhilaration in which battles are decided. Surprisingly little of this has come through previous accounts of what life-and death-was like for the anonymous masses of men jammed into the seagoing ovens plying the Pacific, largely because most World War II books have been written by admirals and reporters...
Miller himself set the tone of the debates that have raged over it when he wrote in 1934: "This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character....No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Despite Time, Love, Beauty....what you will...