Word: punks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skunk, Squash. The DAE pudding, however, contains many a juicy plum. It shows English being enriched, from the earliest days, by borrowings from the U.S. From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry...
...Shohiza-punk or jerk...
...empurpled the Daubendiek temper that for two hours on the night of Dec. 15 no Jefferson phone subscriber could get anything out of his instrument except a voice which said, variously, "Daubendiek speaking; no gas, no calls; speak to the rationing board" or "The service is kind of punk -just like the gasoline situation." One subscriber tore his phone from the wall by the roots for emotional relief. The muted town foamed at the mouth...
...Pierre of the Plains", the second feature, makes you laugh in spite of yourself. With a corny plot, punk acting, and little excuse for being, it ought to be terrible. But for some well-disguised reason it's not. Maybe its because John Carroll, the leading actor, has such a great time. If you can't laugh with him, you can laugh...
...nearly three years the gremlins devoted themselves exclusively to the R.A.F. But recently Sergeant Gunner Z. E. White of Dallas, Tex. had the guns on "Big Punk," his Flying Fortress, jam just as he got a German Focke-Wulf 190 in his sights over the North Sea. When White reported what had happened, Pilot Oscar Coen, one of the three original members of the R.A.F.'s Eagle Squadron, nodded his head sagely. A noted gremlinologist, Coen knew then that the gremlins had joined the U.S. Air Forces and that the time had come for their activities to be explained...