Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long seemed to be all right-even profitable-to use much gamier words, including blasphemy and obscenity, in U.S. novels. "Son-of-a-bitch" had quite a literary past, going back at least to Shakespeare (in King Lear). Owen Wister sounded it more discreetly in The Virginian (1902), where it was cloaked as "son-of-a -." The Virginian's ringing retort was well remembered: "When you call me that, smile." The only question was: Was it quite the proper phrase for the President to use in public, with or without smiling...
...manual of polite procedure.* The elegant vice marshal of the diplomatic corps in London, Marcus Cheke (rhymes with peak), 43, with 14 years of embassy life in Brussels and Lisbon, had drawn up a deportment primer for the 200 raw recruits taken in by the Foreign Service over the past three years...
...Poland, "a thorough purge is going on in all phases of Jewish life . . . Politically conscious peoples are being forced to liquidate their past, and confess to crimes they never committed. Those who are able [to do so] flee the country...
...squad's meager practice makes the Crimson's outlook especially grim. In the past two weeks the team has had only one game with Milton, and a bare 20 minutes of practice yesterday afternoon. All this has made the players fairly rusty. Ever since Pete Lawson replaced Jack Snelling as center for the high scoring Morgan Hatch and Nat Harris pair, the new line hasn't had enough time to get used to working together...
...appeal follows two incidents in the past 12 months: the BU game on February 9, when one referee was struck by a beer can and feeling ran high between the two teams, and the second Yale game last year when Dave Abbot was severely slashed in a brawl with Yale's Artie Moher...