Word: hashed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illustrative: e.g., "a boy drawing gasoline out of an automobile tank so that a girl can clean her satin shoe ... a young fellow sitting in his B.V.D.s after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction . . . two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance throwing hash by the handful around Childs' at 6 a.m." But now the stories were increasingly marked by what Rosenfeld calls Fitzgerald's sense of "the quality of brutishness, of dull indirection and degraded sensibility running through [the] American life of the hour...
...last, Donitz himself was apparently in British custody. But for days his Radio Flensburg had broadcast a fantastic hash of surrender announcements and anti-Russian propaganda...
...have some expressions and a few adjectives, adverbs and participles perhaps unfamiliar. Hash on toast is, roughly translated, slop on a shingle. Telling a tall story is snowing. But in the main, we seem to talk quite ordinarily, only somewhat more vigorously than we did as civilians. Even in the Air Corps we call an airplane a ship or a plane, and we do not "rev her up," we only run up the engines and fly around hoping we won't be "jumped by the Nips, shot down in flames and have to hit the silk...
...speed of 335 m.p.h. American Airlines will get 55 planes, Panagra three and United 35. Within a week, United plans to contract for another 15 from Douglas. Similarly, Eastern Airlines is now mulling over an order for Douglas. The airlines know that the new planes will make hash of present schedules. The transcontinental time will go down from 18 hours to 8 hours 30 minutes...
Since the Dumbarton Oaks Conference cannot now guarantee that the U.S. people and its Congress will approve such a major change in U.S. tradition-even in the interests of international security-the present conference can do no more than hash over the details, make suggestions...