Word: nope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only when you're in debt that you start worrying, and I don't know anyone who is in debt." Crop prospects are good. Said Farmer Horton: "I don't look for prices to go a whole lot lower. We're not alarmed." "Nope, things don't look too bad," echoed Mrs. Horton, shutting the door of her new $385 refrigerator and flicking on the fluorescent lights in the kitchen...
Dartmouth's big nope lies in its backs, for the last two weeks have produced a series of runs and passes which dazzled all comers. McLaughry found a finely cut gem in John Clayton, sophomore quarterback, who has thrown all of the Green's touchdown passes...
...Nope," the News swore, "we ain't." Then it pointed out that a four-letter word isn't necessarily simpler than a twelve-letter word. "For illustration, here are some shorties which we'd call real $7 words, and wouldn't use here at this time without explanation: adit, erg, ergo, ohm, gloze, cozen, griff, modal, mure, snash, viable." On the other hand, the News thought that most of its readers would understand fairly longish ones like "intolerable" (though "unbearable" was better), or "incompatibility" (because of divorce cases), or "vulnerable" (because of bridge being so popular...
Although one student demanded, "Since you are an experimental group, get the hell out there and experiment," most ballots showed an antipathy towards original student written scripts. This opinion was backed up by such statements as "Nope I'm a reactionary, I don't believe in encouraging the writing of literature. Let's read what we have...
...Sabath's court about a zillion times. What had he seen? Well, brother, he'd never seen no Gypsy Rose Lee dancing in the jury box. Just jerks he had to photograph. But since it was his life work he looked in again one day last week. Nope. The joint looked haunted. Nobody inside but a black-haired young guy, a blonde dame, and a lot of empty seats...