Word: guv
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, It Moves ... In Hurst Green, Sussex, England, Policeman Ronald Marshall halted a prewar pickup truck, noted grass growing on one running board, an inch-long piece of metal in one tire, a triple-layer canvas patch on another, was assured by the driver, "I think the guv'nor is going to take it off the road soon...
...Philadelphia Joseph Clark, trundled a huge bag of groceries (packed mostly with wadded paper) from his car to the front porch, where he sat down, delivered a homespun talk on the high cost of living, ending with Nancy arriving to reclaim the forgotten groceries ("You were a big help, Guv!"), bantered farm problems over the back fence with Estes Kefauver, cavorted about a well-clipped lawn with his dog Muldoon (who chewed the lapel off a soundman's jacket). Said Film-Maker Herschell Lewis: "The attempt is to make the viewer realize that Stevenson is actually like...
After the committee had wrangled for 2½ hours, Paul Butler-who had backed Kerr-came out of the meeting to announce that Frank Clement had won the keynote spot. In Nashville, "Guv'nah Frank" tore up a telegram of congratulations he had prepared for Bob Kerr, allowed happily as how "we've had more telegrams and telephone messages on this than when we were re-elected governor...
...After 90 minutes of it, as he was pushing his way through the crowd, a sailor who had been one of his most persistent hecklers offered him a box of throat lozenges. " 'Ere, guv'nor," he said. " 'Ave one. I bet yer need it after that." "Thanks, chum," replied the Rev. Donald Soper, president of the Methodist Church in Britain...
...Well," said the tired gentleman, "One of you folks done broke the law by not filing your census blank with the guv'ment...