Word: hollers
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...replace a front fender on a 1940 Chevrolet cost $18.80 for parts and labor ten years ago; the same job on last year's model costs $42.50. As a result, in spite of six rate increases in the last seven years, casualty companies are already getting ready to holler for more...
...when Mrs. Hawkins finally snapped off the light and dozed off with her arm around her daughter. She was awakened by a man crawling up to the bed in the darkness. According to her testimony, after threatening to "cut your goddamed throat if you holler," the intruder raped her and fled...
...Levine, a certain Professor Krapp showed in a learned work that New Englanders do pretty much the same thing with r's. They say winder for window, Banner for Hannah, piazzer, Noar, chawrk and dawrg, James Russell Lowell is another case in point: "A mournful providence fashioned us holler," wrote the poet, "on purpose that we might our principles swaller...
Cars & Paper. Mr. Truman's own party colleagues did a little better. Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd, a man who some day hopes to hear a Lincoln-head penny holler Uncle, wanted to fry off $9.1 billion-$200 million from the Veterans Administration, $500 million out of the Defense budget, $3.5 billion out of the $7.5 billion foreign-aid program and $4.9 billion out of the domestic-civilian sectors of the Truman budget...
...woodwork of the nation's largest city, a New York City grand jury last week sent out a call for reinforcements. The jurors proposed a crime commission of distinguished citizens, to be financed by public contributions. Its job: to keep an eye on officials charged with preventing crime, holler long & loud if they fall down...