Word: innuendo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SOME PEOPLE LIKE to watch shackled men run. It is, I suppose, the hoped-for fall that anchors their attention. In any case, their anticipation breeds anxiety, and soon everyone is upset. Over what? Rumors, innuendo, presumed personality conflicts, uninformed speculation circulating as fact and interest masquerading as expertise. Apathy has apparently come to be determined by whether or not you have a position on Afro-American Studies...
After nine months of constant argument, bitter accusations, facial innuendo and political hyperbole--generated by the fight over the selection of a new City Manager--the Council last Monday night gave incumbent John H. Corcoran a vote of confidence...
...together, so they were out of the way quickly. His slow blues featured a lot of slurring of words, another major blues vocal tradition but mishandled by him so that it became merely irritating. (If you want to hear what slurring can do, in terms of veiled threats, innuendo, and the like, listen to Jimmy Reed sing "Take Out Some Insurance...
...large-caliber wisecrack, like the horse pistol, is part of America's past. As the Norman Mailer-Germaine Greer exchange indicated recently, the snub-nosed innuendo aimed below the belt is today's favored weapon. When quips were quips even a President of the United States could get them off. Remember the British diplomat who told Lincoln that "English gentlemen never black their own boots"? Lincoln looked up from buffing his own and replied, "Whose boots do you black...
...rebellion known to Mexican historians as "The Chiapas War of the Castes." But in recounting Cuscat's story, Wilson also details how he, as novelist, tracked this story down, searched it out in historical documents and folk tales, came to understand it by studying social custom and innuendo, and finally realized its meaning for his own life...