Word: keepin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...line to the local police chief: no culprit, no factory. But the lawman (Rod Steiger) is no match for the cranky air conditioner in his office, much less a big-league homicide. A bullish, slow-moving redneck, he sees his job as routine peace keeping and keepin' the Nigras in their place...
...Baby." Thousands of wives and girlfriends of newly drafted servicemen buy the record. Lyrics include: Don't ya negotiate, baby, I just don't know what to think, babe, Like them creeples say to do. 'Bout them pacificisters and such. Let our love burn like napalm, baby; We're keepin' US offs the brink, babe, Let it tingle like Asian flu. And, oh yeah, I love ya so much...
...well-known soprano who decided to get married and retire, Leontyne asked: "Retire from what?" She has a great, saving capacity for laughing at herself, too. Back home last Christmas, she made a joke of helping at table at the Chisholms when the maids were away: "I'm keepin' my hand in," she said. "The first flat C and I'll be back here...
...Kingdom's twelve chapter-size tales, the best demonstrate how resolutely the Crooked Creekers man age "just keepin on keepin on" until the Lord God calls them home. Depicted in the 30-odd years between World War I and Korea, the Crooked Creekers live in odd isolation from the rest of the U.S., invoke the King James version of the Good Book in rough-hewn English, react to such intrusions as World War II by sending their young men off to fight, not knowingly but instinctively, like "the old mother hen flyin at the chicken hawk that comes swoopin...
...some orators in Tammany Hall," said Plunkitt, "but they're chiefly ornamental . . . The men who rule have practiced keepin' their tongues still, not exercisin' them...