Word: hawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first 18. "My doctor has given me orders that if I don't start laughing instead of cussing when I miss those shots, he's going to stop me from playing golf. So every time I miss a shot you're going to hear a haw, haw, haw." Ike's only real complaint was about his "football knee," a relic of his West Point days. "You know," he told Walter, after walking six holes, "my knee twinges now and then . . . First time in years...
Beneath Contempt. Faced with such incendiary propaganda, the British Government announced in the House of Commons that it was considering jamming Athens broadcasts to the island crown colony. Immediately there was an outcry from Britain's Labor Opposition. Never in Lord Haw-Haw's noisiest days had the British jammed the Nazi radio; Winston Churchill preferred to treat Goebbels' propaganda as beneath contempt. But, argued the Tories last week, the circumstance is different when Greek incites fellow Greek to terrorism. And Britain, which in a desperate hour sent what troops it could spare to Greece to fight...
Michael Redgrave as the air marshal is just the right mixture of phlegm and haw, and Ralph Truman as the peer is a jowly good fellow. Just right is George Rose, the commercial vulgarian who cons the better man down and then crows most abominably about...
...General John Hartman Morgan, 79, British lawyer and top authority on constitutional law; at Wootton Bassett, England. General Morgan was legal adviser to the American War Crimes Commission at Nürnberg from 1947 to 1949, advised the prosecution in the postwar treason trial of Nazi Broadcaster William ("Lord Haw Haw") Joyce, which led to Joyce's hanging...
...these pieces of paper than ever before. They bind the United States, for instance, to all of Latin America, most of Europe, and a good part of Asia. In the next few days, study groups of professionals and dedicated amateurs will meet all over the country to pull land haw at the biggest, and also the flimsiest, of the documents--the Charter of the United Nations...