Word: humphed
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...difficult to articulate to those who are here for their twenty-fifth and fiftieth reunions that we, in our own peculiar ways, are trying to remain faithful to our own ideals. But these, once again, are the big words of blasphemy which have become unpronouncable this year. "Ideals." Humph. The tooting of ideals comes to so little...
...difficult to articulate to those who are here for their twenty fifth and fiftieth reunions that we, in our own peculiar ways, are trying to remain faithful to our own ideals. But these, once again, are the big words of blasphemy which have become unpronouncable this year. "Ideals." Humph. The tooting of ideals comes to so little...
...mood of Congress. After McCormack's defeat on the floor vote that took away Powell's seat, California Democrat Lionel Van Deerlin, a leader of the movement to discipline the Harlem Representative, approached McCormack to explain his action. The Speaker turned away with a disgusted "humph...
...observer guessed that the crisis keeping Bandy at the White House was the same as the one that kept Vice-President Humph from attending Churchill's funeral and other government officials from openly discussing various policies. Most of the rumors seemed to include the possibility that the President had forbidden Bandy's appearance...
...almost as durable. Well into the modern age of science, men accepted the notion that the evil-tempered animal could store a two-week supply of water in its humpor in a great, cistern-like stomach. The hump theory was the first to be discarded as so much humph. What the camel carries on its back is a reserve of fatty tissue to be consumed when the rest of the camel runs out of fuel. The story about the parched Bedouin who slaughtered his favorite camel to drink the water in its stomach was far more tenacious. Not until...