Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live in Washington Heights, but in its counterpart Grant Heights. The individual who made the remark, "Never had it so good," must not know what a decent American home is like...
...along with numerous other men I know who served in Japan or are still serving there, was thoroughly disgusted and shocked at the way American women and children conducted themselves on foreign soil. I have seen women practically naked running the streets half "shot" and fully "shot," have heard them use language that a 30-year sergeant would blush to hear...
...serviceman's wife and have been stationed with my husband in Japan and in Europe, and at times I've been pretty disgusted with the way many of the young wives dress-or rather undress-when they know that they will be seen in public. I'd like to see the same kind of restrictions placed on attire in the suburban supermarkets, and especially on tourists who are visiting some of the important places in the nation's capital...
...peace ... I am prepared to turn my pockets out to show I am harmless." He would, he said, refuse any invitations to visit U.S. military installations. He was not going to the U.S. to find out how strong the U.S. is-"One would be stupid not to know that the U.S. is strong and rich...
...person's punctuation is as good a quick clue to the clarity and logic of his thinking as any I know. Nevertheless, hordes of people seem never to have heard of the semi-colon. one of the most valuable resources in the whole punctuational arsenal; and others, especially in epistolary usage, seem never to have heard of anything but the dash--unless it be the triple exclamation point! And even such a splendid and important novel as Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth is marred by horrible punctuation, particularly the author's evidently insatiable passion for the period...