Word: purred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no reason for sacrificing any more troops in Korea. If it is being done to save someone's face, we in Korea have news for them: we are interested in saving something, too-and it's not pur face. The great showdown is approaching . . . Are we going to sleep right up to the minute the opening gun is fired...
...Others: "Professor" Friedrich Bhaer, who married one of Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women; James Whitcomb Riley's "Perfesser John Clark Ridpath, A.M., LL.D., T-Y-TY." The TYTY was a bit of Riley humor. Since schoolchildren used to spell by syllable (e.g., PURITY, p-u-r-PUR; iI; t-y-TY), the alphabet after the "perfesser's" name brought forth from Riley the old classroom response...