Word: sobbed
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There is down deep near every President's gizzard an errant SOB that on some dark day rises and bursts from the fellow's lips, scattering either delight or dismay across the land, depending on the state of each listener's soul...
...journalists quivered in ecstasy. Prying SOBs out of the mighty is their new art form, and one that can pay palpable rewards. To be authenticated as an SOB by the President is equal to an Emmy or two in today's White House journalism...
...this discussion, the periods after the letters SOB have been dropped. It's time. The phenomenon is now in political encyclopedias, and some shorthand is needed. However, Lexicographer William Safire uses periods and even spells out the full words when he explains various forms and subtleties in his book The New Language of Politics. He notes that SOB is "an appellation which creates a furor whenever the public learns that a President of the United States has used...
Handling an SOB once it has escaped can be quite a fascinating exercise. President Truman let one loose after Columnist Drew Pearson blasted Aide Harry Vaughan; Pearson promptly promoted a new fraternity, "Sons of Brotherhood." Kennedy, SOBing during the 1962 steel crisis, blamed his father for having told him that big steelmen fit the description. Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker stirred some trouble after an Ottawa meeting when his staff claimed that notes Kennedy left behind revealed that the President had SOBed Diefenbaker in the margin. Kennedy claimed he couldn't have done that because he did not know...
...might have been expected, Reagan knew just what to do once his SOB got loose. Indeed, there are those suspicious souls who think he may have promoted the escape just to establish a little macho for the coming budget battles. Only a couple of hours went by before White House Spokesman Larry Speakes was explaining that the President had no recollection of letting out an SOB. He had just turned to Packard and remarked, "It's sunny and you're rich...