Word: haha
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...seductively down the hatch of his sailboat: "You can-uh-drop anchor any time." Motel proprietor to hero, who betrays a certain anxiety to get to bed with heroine: "Yeah, yeah. Man's gotta get his rest-an' he's gotta get it regular. Ha-ha!" Haha...
Bing's undergraduate experience is presented in four acts, each describing one of the four years of college. The first three years rush along, like a well-executed locomotive yell, at a relentlessly accelerating rate of rah-rah and haha, and if the last year somehow loses momentum, it does not much matter-the audience needs a rest by that time anyway. Bing gives it the old college try, and if he cannot sing so well as he used to or act any better than he ever did, that does not much matter either. A younger generation-represented mainly...
...with the coon's little tail adangling, I thought: heaven help us, is that a potential President of these United States? . . . Look at pictures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Jackson, Webster-any really great American. You don't see those men grinning as if life were a big haha...
Director Mitchell Wilder had put on his first "new accessions" show two years ago. "Some of the museums may have had the feeling that we wanted to exhibit their pictures and give them the haha. We had no such thought in mind and were very circumspect...
...Humphry Davy (1778-1829) named it aluminum. British scientists changed it to aluminium to harmonize with sodium, lithium, etc. Britain still uses the extra i, the U.S. drops it. Canada uses both. † The name is said to come from haha, a French word for a boundary to a garden or park. * Davis got his start in Oberlin, Ohio in 1886, peddling kitchenware made of the little-known light metal which his friend Charles Martin Hall had learned to make cheaply. Hall, who died in 1914, left $9,000,000 (one-third of his estate) to Oberlin College, which consequently...