Word: hmmm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deutsch's column was read by people involved in fundraising. Said one: "Hmmm. We can't keep on killing people forever." It is likely that some changes will be made. For Columnist Deutsch, who never studied medicine, is nevertheless a power in U.S. medical journalism. In 1945, when he launched a one-man attack on the medical setup of the Veterans Administration, he almost went to jail. He refused to name his news sources for a series of 50 articles (13 of them containing constructive suggestions, a fair Deutsch percentage) and was voted in contempt of Congress...
Retort. In Chatham, N.Y., Landlord Frank Waldvogel explained to police why he had finally shot and killed a tenant he was trying to evict: the tenant just kept saying, "Hmmm...
...happy tennis fan, looking at the new courts waiting to be played on and remembering last year's bottleneck, mused, "Hmmm. If they put in a couple of more of those, there'll almost be enough to go around...
...Hmmm. In San Francisco, Dr. Robert C. Miller, director of the Steinhart Aquarium, excitedly opened a shipment of Hawaiian fish, was considerably let down to find a bunch of humuhumuhiukole; he had ordered humuhumunukunukuapuaa...
...could, vote Republican this year?" This was followed by the query: "IF SO--What have you had enough of, huh?" And "What do you want more of, huh?" And in the alternative, "IF NOT--Why haven't you had enough? huh?" and "What do YOU want more of, HmmM...