Word: jus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Sir Clive Baillieu of the British Purchasing Commission. Nobody calls him Mr. Batt; he is always referred to as Bill Batt-pronounced as if it were one word. When he called Jesse Jones last week, a warmhearted Texas girl in Jones's office said: "Jus' a minute, honey." All Washington thought that Bill Batt and Donald Nelson would make a good team...
...folks ever been buried without a few words." There is the note Tom Joad writes to bury with the body: "This here is William James Joad, dyed of a stroke, old, old man. His fokes buried him becaws they got no money to pay for funerls. Nobody kilt him. Jus a stroke an he dyed." John Ford's touch is everywhere. It is in Tom Joad's laboriously adding an s to funerl in the burial note. It is in the marvelous pantomime as Ma Joad burns her box of letters and keepsakes before starting west-a silent...