Word: guff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mailed them the two statements without digging deep yourself to find where the mayor was telling the whole truth and where he was drawing the long bow-where his opponent was being unfair and where he was scoring a good point? And if both statements were full of political guff, wouldn't you just say so, instead of taking up your friends' time to "read both sides...
...organizations. Politicians, the isolationists, the appeasers, the pacifists . . . had better ... go 'way back and sit down. . . . We listened to them after the last war and let them run things, and they failed us. We mean business this time and are not in a mood to stand for any guff...
This kind of impudent guff pours out of station CKLW (Detroit-Windsor) for no less than three and a half hours six mornings a week (Mon. through Sat., 6-9:30 a.m., E.W.T.). Through some quirk of the radio waves, surprised U.S. Army pilots on the New Guinea run pick it up, write ardent fan letters. Hosts of Detroiters are equally enthusiastic about The Early Morning Frolic and the pair of wacky mimics who operate...
...Harrovian had been trying to put a good face on things with a bit of guff, he had been ingenuous. The left-wing Tribune screamed bloody murder: "The best people stood by us. What the common herd did doesn't matter. British imperial rule defined in a flash!" Sir Reginald thereupon edited his remarks. Only 4,000 of Burma's 15,000,000 people had actively helped the Japs, said he; they were extremists of the nationalist Thakin Party...
...ocean would lie between Adolf Hitler and America. Last fortnight the nation had agreed on the imperative necessity of arming. Last week, as little seemed to come out of Washington but newsreel pep talks, the cry changed to Action-no time now for diddling around, for chitchat, for political guff...