Word: maw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sometime around the spring term of 1943, the last vestiges of "education as usual" went out the wartime window at Harvard as in other schools. The program of sixteen courses and eight terms of study for an A.B. or S.B. disappeared down the maw of preinduction acceleration. A twelve-week summer term became an established institution, and, later, for the great majority of students then in the services, a system of war service credits was instituted. Credit towards one's degree was offered for such diverse subjects as basic training, meteorology, and Japanese...
Nothing Lah-de-dah. Above all there were the Kettles, Tobacco Readers who mismanaged a fertile farm and spent most of their time borrowing from the neighbors. Maw Kettle was a mountainously fat woman in a very dirty housedress. When Author MacDonald visited the Kettles, Maw shouted at the dogs to "stop that goddamn noise." Then she hospitably kicked a path through the dog bones and chicken manure. Author MacDonald staggered; her nose had been dealt "a stinging blow by the outhouse lurking doorless and unlovely" near the porch. Once she ventured to wonder why the Kettles...
...sweet, soft voice texture which stirred and delighted Chicagoans, Father Finn achieved by instructing high sopranos to sing moo; low sopranos, mee; first altos, mah; second altos, maw. "When you hear them mooing and making and everything, it's like listening to a lot of flutes...
Stanford, 7 June, 1902 "So there is no maw gaw to shed in the Baw Waw. The paw praw-Baws will feel saw ! The praw-Baws are an awful baw! They gained no eclaw by taking the flaw! I set no staw by them. They are rotten at the caw. So no maw from...
...India (from Singapore, Indian Agitator Subhas Chandra Bose broadcast: "Now that India's neighbor Burma has achieved its freedom, nothing on earth can keep the Indians enslaved any longer"); 2) there is severe economic distress in Burma and the Japs would rather see public wrath directed at Ba Maw than at themselves; 3) the Japs expect an Allied offensive into Burma, think the political gesture toward the Burmese is timely...