Word: hawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farmers who've come out to meet Willey are neither heretics nor hayseeds but businessmen in a carpeted irrigation-district boardroom. They hem and haw in their own argot. They are worried, for instance, about load-flow relationships: if the government sets stringent new standards on selenium in their runoff, they may need to dilute it with the very water Willey is proposing to buy. Life is terribly uncertain. The regulatory agencies, they observe, "just agreed that water runs downhill about two months ago." The farmers also have this uneasy feeling that the environmentalists want them to save water...
Next, John Ritter, I believe with all my heart that Three's Company was an evil plot designed to lower the standards of the American television viewing public to a point where the networks could bill re-runs of shows like Hee Haw and Mr. Ed as quality entertainment...
...when you go home," she says, and you ought to be able to choose the way you sound as well. The problem with sounding Southern, she says, is that it suggests certain stereotypes. A lot of outsiders have formed their ideas about the South through prolonged contemplation of Hee Haw and The Dukes of Hazzard. These ideas tend to be long on pickup trucks and short on Faulkner...
...Biden: Uh, I'm sorry, but your time is up. I'd like to recognize my distinguished colleague from Alabama, Sen. Heflin, but he is making a special guest appearance on "Hee-Haw" and couldn't be with us tonight. Still, we're all gosh darn proud of him here on the committee and wish the good ol' Senator well. The thoughtful Senator from Pennsylvania...
Haughey (pronounced Haw-hee) was almost right. In last week's Irish election the Fianna Fail (Soldiers of Destiny) party won 44.1% of the vote, giving it 81 seats in the 166-member Dail Eireann, or House of Representatives. But that was three short of an absolute majority, thus forcing the Republic of Ireland into a period of minority government. Ruling by compromise will be difficult for the autocratic Haughey, who has won the nickname "the Boss...