Word: sassing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then she clammed up. When Cottrell and the sergeant doubted her story, she got mildly sassy. The sergeant booked her for disorderly conduct (time, 11:15 a.m.; date, Oct. 5) and sent her along to the white brick Bergen County jail. Jersey justice forbids sass from drifters...
Even on barren island outposts like Ascension or Iwo Jima the G.I. had his garden sass. Hydroponics made it possible. Before World War II this scientific art of growing plants without soil in chemically treated water had been mostly Sunday supplement stuff. But the Army had read the supplements. It put hydroponics to work...
...Grind & Sass. In the worst of the labor pinch, the President had to cut down on his afternoon reducing exercises and grind through long, wearing conferences. Cheerful George Allen took to his bed, and the President lost four valued Administration lieutenants.† The C.I.O.'s young, yeasty United Packinghouse Workers sassed him (see below...
Meanwhile Colonel Perón and the proud Argentines were exhilarated, most Latin Americans were secretly (or openly) delighted, and even some North Americans were amused to see the brat from the Rio de la Plata stand up and sass back the Colossus of the North...
...from fellows won't take any sass...