Word: huh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heed only the commentators who echo their own prejudices. The other extreme, even when buttressed by the sense of responsibility of the network, produces more lip service than performance, and mixes hypocrisy with the punditry. "At CBS," says one newsman at another network, "you just say 'Uh-huh' to the no-opinion policy and then go ahead and pretend to make omelets without breaking eggs...
...alone again. The lights had been lowered, and I whispered conspiratorially in her ear. "No kidding, how old ARE you? Huh...
...plane in Los Angeles, impulsive Judy Spreckels, 24, ex-wife of Sugar Daddy Adolph B. Spreckels Jr., was soon in Memphis and the offices of the daily Press-Scimitar. She had learned that a photograph, made last month in Las Vegas, showing her with dreamboat Groaner Elvis ("Hi luh-huh-huh-huv-huv yew-hew") Presley, 21, had appeared in the newspaper, and she had hopped to Tennessee to buy some copies of that edition. Was she in luh-huh-huh-huv with Presley (TIME, May 14)? "Oh, no, he's too young," cooed Judy...
...goes raw and whining in the high notes, but down low it is rich and round. As he throws himself into one of his specialties-Heartbreak Hotel, Blue Suede Shoes or Long Tall Sally-his throat seems full of desperate aspirates ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi luh-huh-huh-huv yew-hew") or hiccuping glottis strokes, and his diction is poor. But his movements suggest, in a word...
...heterogeneous lot they were! Bankers, college professors, printers, lawyers, construction men, chartered accountants, and school boys. One fellow wasn't at all surprised when a young man in dungarees slapped him on the back, knocked his book from his hand, and observed, "Hey, you're in Ec I too, huh?" Pretty well everybody was interested in the B & M's engine, the 3713, which is the line's last P-4 Pacific-type. It has a wheel arrangement of 4-6-2, which, as an enthusiast knows, is the way you distinguish one steam engine from another. Others, like...