Word: shee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shee-Rack! Climaxing a day-long orgy of pride and peroration, Chirac stood atop an immense podium, his arms outstretched in the large V popularized by De Gaulle. "Let us restore hope to our country!" he shouted to the throng. Like tiny flashes of lightning, the reflections of strobe lights glittered on his large glasses while his followers cried over and over, "Shee-rack! Shee-rack...
...want to send him where he'll be happy. What the hell else would he do? He'll speak for us, like he always did. That's one thing about George. He may never get to be President. But he can always say what's on folks' minds. Shee-it yes. Y'all can say all you want about him, but he sure sent our message clear. Shee...
...father, Faulkner's style intrudes: "Clarence carrying o'clock twelve." The more experimental parts of the book are far from perfect. At times there are too many lists of food and too many clumsy attempts at representing noises in onomatopoeic form--for example, "creer chee, creaca chee, creesh shee" to convey the sound of shoes on a sidewalk. At other points in the novel, the symbols are too apparent. The silver dollars which Charles uses to cover his dead fathers eyes later roll around floors and are found in desks and awarded as prizes in running races throughout the book...
...warning from the city of Leicester that there is no more room for Asians. But what can he do? His only relatives are in Leicester, he says, so he must go there too. Another young man, an engineer, declares that he is going to Chicago, U.S.A.-he pronounces it "Shee-cago,"-where he has an uncle who is a "medical practitioner...