Word: huh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blond, blue-eyed Governor Warren seems to radiate goodness and warmth. Impressed by his relaxed good nature, his evident simplicity, the eager "yes, yes" and "uh-huh, uh-huh" with which he indicates earnest interest in everything they have to say, his visitors often begin to fit him into a scheme of history. They see him not merely as a perfect political candidate, but as the forerunner in U.S. politics of a new era of friendly men to succeed the recent era of angry men-the era of the Burt Wheelers, the Fiorello LaGuardias, the Huey Longs, the Harold Ickeses...
...smiled, said, "Si, signor, Partisans." But he seemed vague about the word. They were peasants. They had killed to save a pig and because they hated the Germans. Tony said: "In America, they don't do sucha things. Now we help and sometimes we can kill Germans. Okay, huh...
...better half. What sunshine means to flowers, what leaves mean to a tree, what springtime means to songbirds. ..." Hrumph! hrumph! hrumph! the bombs fell, and I ducked, and then looked up and read the last line of the greeting: "That's what you mean to me." "Songbirds, huh?" said Martin, looking up into...
...silly. All Flip said was that he had a cute babe with him, and that's the straight stuff. Dowst got a first sentence that made sense, and then dissolved into gibberish. There's still time. Lot's beat those stuck-up Boston papers. Let's go to press. Huh...
When they got to the campus (they did call it a campus), he saw some girls in another uniformplaid shirts, too long, and blue jeans, too short. He said, knowing, "Oh, WAACS, huh?" and she said, "No, Smith girls." She was wearing a skirt, and there was one other couple and the girl was wearing a skirt, but all the other girls wore the uniform...