Word: sassing
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Indecent Exposures. By next morning the story was on front pages all over the country. The New York Times wrapped it up in nine lively columns, including an eyewitness account by its Johnny-on-the-spot photographer, Fred Sass-but not including any of his pictures. An editor explained: "Her skirt was way up over her legs, and the Times doesn't print pictures like that." Everybody else...
...Terrible-tempered Harold Ickes gave salty-tongued Jack Garner none of his sass. Related Garner: "I don't ever recall having had a conversation with Ickes. We just speak or nod. We don't seem...
...Maury was taking an interest again in his home town. This week he filed his candidacy for mayor. His chances looked good. He was a little greyer, a little fatter; he was almost broke, and he no longer talked with his old sass. But San Antonio seemed to want a man without too many surprises...
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...