Word: peepul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outside world; Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, ready, in Sputnik's day, to cash in on five years of criticizing Republican defense policy; Adlai Stevenson, believed by many to be eager to try against some Republican besides Ike; Estes Kefauver, still, according to the Gallup poll, the peepul's choice (he leads second-place Jack Kennedy by 26% to 19%, but professional Democratic politicians are more unwilling than ever-if possible-to accept him); and Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, Michigan's Governor "Soapy" Williams, and even Oregon's odd Senator Wayne Morse...
...years uv my life bein' razed up in the tuff atmosfere uv Clay Caounty's Brazil (pronounced bra as in brassière, z as in zebra, il as in ill), I think I can say TIME erred. The atmosfere ain't tuff, and the peepul ain't either...
...editor. He wrote rambling comments for the Record ("We like Yale better than we do Harvard. Otherwise we would have gone to Harvard and liked it better than Yale"), and under the names of Sancho Panza and Guy Fawkes, some light light verse for the News ("Ruddy-fased the peepul go, Up to Plasid for the sno . . ."). Griswold's ambition in life: to be a writer...