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Word: huh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jobs queued up, as usual, for their morning papers. Then they saw the headlines: America had proposed a conference to "compose differences." Through the grey dawn, the news spread rapidly. Before Moscow's huge notice boards, in trolleys and subways, people happily nudged each other and said: "Good, huh? Good!" Cried a young teacher: "There are many honest fellows in America who don't want war." An engineer told an American: "Molotov will get together with you folks yet, you just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: In & Out of the Potatoes | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Keyholer Walter Winchell, claiming a "scoopee (we hope)," gave the rumor currency by a second-hand report that 34-year-old Frank Handy, son of the publisher of the Ypsilanti (Mich.) Press, "has the engagement ring in his pocket now, waiting for [Margaret's] uh-huh." Washington society began to envision a White House wedding;* some even speculated about its political usefulness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Waiting for the Uh-Huh | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Andy rushed over to embrace Joe, then he strutted up the line before the crowd, asking triumphantly: "Who said I wasn't a man? I'm a man, huh? I'm a man." Even the experts had to agree; he had made a good case for himself as 1948's Bowler of the Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I'm a Man, Huh? | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...Harvard, huh?" said the salesman. "Sure got a lot of fruits out there...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: South, Mid-West, West Coast Distort University | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

...into an impeccably, impossibly genteel widow woman. Gable contrives to melt this Pallas Athena, Deborah Kerr, by fondling her tots and growling to her when they are not around, "A weekend in the country with separate rooms and sailboats on the water--that's for us, huh, honey? That's for us..." And again, instead of allowing the disgusted hero to renounce the game and dissolve quietly into the night, the scriptwriters have added a scene in which the forthright fellow gives the sponsor-boor his comeuppance with a pitcher of water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 8/1/1947 | See Source »

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