Word: gush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last she came to the Duke of Edinburgh and those two adorable children. 'I guess those are the four most important people in the world,' said a voice behind me." All this was too much for some of Her Majesty's most loyal subjects. "Sickening gush," snorted crotchety old Columnist Hannen Swaffer. "Almost turned me into a republican." And last week Punch was moved to a page of parodies that were only too close to what the columnists often write. Sample Punchlines...
...faults in this campaign are not particularly glaring. (In fact, its very innocuousness alone precludes any gush of vigorous support.) We drag feet, however, because the two resolutions involve serious though latent trouble, trouble which is not worth risking in view of the paltry blessings their adoption would bring...
...took their wounded pride to other employment offices. "We girls naturally resent being told we are inefficient," said the delinquent switchboard operator stiffly. "We will do our jobs until our notice expires, then go. We shall be coldly polite." But the coolness was soon made up for by a gush of warm good wishes from other harassed businessmen applauding Cartwright's courage, and hundreds of paint workers seeking employment with Cartwright's. "I wouldn't feel frustrated if I worked for you," wrote...
...with pitch" taken from bitumen springs in the Tigris and Euphrates Valley. Just a few hundred yards from where Nebuchadnezzar, "full of fury," cast Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into the fiery, oil-fed furnace, Iraq Petroleum (then called Turkish Petroleum) in 1927 blew in its first well with a gush that could not be controlled for three days. Iraq's proven reserve (7.5 billion barrels in the Kirkuk field alone) is within respectable distance of the great Kuwait and Saudi Arabian holdings...
...seepage of mountain water. Then the sea will no longer try to invade it. The industries and the people who depend on west basin water will never be able to use it at the old spendthrift rate, but at least they can be sure that their wells will not gush salt water...