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Word: naw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter who dey is, Nat, good or bad, even ol' Marse Joe, dey white folks day gwine make you feel black-assed. Never seed a white man smile at me befo'. How come dat 'plies, Nat? Figger a white man treat you right you gwine feel white-assed. Naw suh! Young Massah, old massah sweet-talk me, I jes' feel black-assed th'ough and th'ough. Figger when I gets to heaven like you say I is, do good Lord hisself even He gwine make old Hark feel black-assed, standin' befo' de golden throne. Dere He is, white...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: The Outrage of Benevolent Paternalism | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

Rowe said he tried to talk Thomas into turning back. Thomas insisted, '' 'Naw, we're gonna take this car tonight.' At this time, both autos were doing 85 to 90, to 100 maybe. Really moving. Gene says, 'All right, boys, here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: The Trial | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...three hours spent In Harm's Way. At one moment he shrewdly plays the grimness of war against the undeniable glamour of it, next diverts the flow of sentimental clichés into a vein of snappish humor. "I'd enjoy meeting your son," says Meredith. "Naw-you wouldn't," grumbles Wayne, eying the lad across a messroom with eloquent distaste. Other scenes crackle comfortably: O'Neal cravenly having his backbone slapped into shape in the men's washup; Andrews placidly playing croquet on his front lawn under the snout of an anti-aircraft battery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: World War Twosome | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...niff-naw (Scotch-Irish dialect)-argument

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FROM ABE'S CABE TO ZOOLY A Slang Sampler | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

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