Word: papping
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...crusty staff of life, is now "half-masticated . . . before reaching the mouth," and caters to the taste which prefers fruit juice to fruit, chopped meat to a cut off the joint, mashed potato, ice cream, and a host of packaged powders which water turns into infinite varieties of pap...
...home in bed with a cold, to "My darling Mumkin and Pap: Good morning I hope you have used Pear's Soap and are flourishing now . . . you will be horrified to hear that my temperature is 150°-But really I have got a 'petit rhume' only...
...conducts music that used to make Frank's heart soar "on wings of agonized joy." When the spring earth becomes "an orb of gold afloat in rainbows," Frank just counts the orbs of gold that he has in the bank. He turns literary prostitute, and starts writing "poisoned pap" that sells well. He even, like Author Caldwell, writes a novel ("with Sex aplenty") about "international bankers" who "cunningly and sedulously plotted wars for their own profit. This was what the American people wanted ... a scapegoat for their fear. . . . Sound and fury, rage and excess, anger and despair, defeated dreams...
...already rigged, with all the ruthless efficiency of the most thorough dictatorship in the Hemisphere. El Jefe cast a glance at the obelisk and its inscription: "I have put the ambitions of my youth and the brilliance of my career at the service of my country." Beyond such pap, inscribed far & wide on monuments through the Republic, he had no reason to worry about high-sounding ideologies. The dictator and President of the Dominican Republic has no ideology: he is no Fascist in the European sense. He is more a compound of the Oriental despot and the more corrupt...
...hero of The Big Sky is a raw Kentucky boy named Boone Caudill who goes West after he hits his Pap a lick with a piece of firewood. In St. Louis in 1830, he and his friend Jim Deakins join up for a keelboat expedition to the wild Blackfoot country at the headwaters of the Missouri. The cargo for trading is mostly whiskey; but their ace-in-the-hole, counted on to save the scalps of the whole company from Indians, is a twelve-year-old squaw named Teal Eye, daughter of a Blackfoot chief...