Word: jes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jes" Teched Him Off." The enemy gunners could not hit York without wounding some of their own soldiers. And no German who peered over his gun to figure out what to do lived long enough to regret it. "Every time one of 'em raised his head, I jes' teched him off," York later explained. He fired 17 times-and 17 enemy soldiers died. Finally, German officers on the hill realized that York was virtually alone, sent eight men charging him with bayonets. York had used up all his rifle bullets, but he took out his pistol and picked...
...great one for race pride," says a Negro girl (Ruby Dee) who works for white folks. "It's jes' that I cain't use it much in my line...
Harry: The breaker is Harry, Sophie. I jes' tuned ya in. Could this be the Golden Verce of Sout' Levittown...
...than JC. When he decides to steal her car and keep it until she returns the money, he describes the move "as a last recourse to retaliatory capability, humanely applied as persuasion rather than force per se." Kitten, however, knows this liberty cabbage for the sauerkraut it is: "Extorshun . . . jes like...
...Godoy, 59, a cavalryman with a folksy style. "This palace is the home of the nation," he chatted at a press conference, "but do not come too late at night, as I may be sleeping." Army Commander Nicolas Lindley was named Prime Minister. Air Force General Jesús Melgar, the new Agriculture Minister, quickly scored with consumers by persuading butchers to knock down meat prices. The generals reaffirmed their intention to hold a simon-pure election next June. There were even stories that APRA, with which the generals have been feuding for three decades, had agreed to a modus...