Word: hawing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public as the author of the flawless Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage. He may have been thinking of God as well as the critics when he chortled: "They used to call me that ter rible young rascal, but now they are beginning to hem and haw and smile-those very old coots who used to adopt a condescending air toward...
...Haw-Haw-Haw. Meanwhile, Mrs. James's attorney, Raymond Rubin, scoffed at Powell's offer to settle for $33,000, declaring, "He's not showing any good faith." And, Rubin disclosed, Mrs. James is going to become a recording artist too. Her record will be called No Man Is Above de Lawd, and will include one song with the pointed lyric...
...people are going haw-haw-haw...
Treason has many faces, and most of them are familiar to Dame Rebecca West. Her studies of such traitors as Lord Haw-Haw, Klaus Fuchs, Pontecorvo and the Rosenbergs, explored the wide range of motives that can impel a man to betrayal. Sometimes, as in the case of Lord Haw-Haw or Fuchs, the traitor is distinguished from the patriot mainly by a loyalty turned upside down. Sometimes the reason is outside compulsion: John Vassall, a homosexual in the British embassy in Moscow, claimed that he turned informer under threat of exposure by the Russians...
...Sukarno's political powers waned, so it seemed did his chronophobia. At a palace reception, as he was boasting how he had banned Beatle music and Beatle haircuts, McCulloch's gleaming pate caught his eye. "Haw," beamed the Bung, "this TIME and LIFE fellow doesn't have to worry about Beatle haircuts, does he?" Then he leaned close to McCulloch and, as though imparting a state secret, whispered: "But do not worry, my friend. Grass never grows on a busy street...