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Senator Bunker is a serious Young Democrat, a Mormon Bishop who was ap pointed to the Senate in 1940, who had heretofore held his peace while learning the ropes. But to Emperor Jones, he was just an annoying young squirt. Jones dashed off a hot reply...
Quickly built, the Otter had her first trials. "Very satisfactory," chuffed Secretary Knox. People began to believe that whole shoals of Sea Otters would shortly squirt out of U.S. shipyards, start bobbing across the Atlantic in schools. But nothing happened. Two months ago Mr. Knox finally admitted the idea was dead...
...evenings, he boasts of "perpetrating his lesson in Electricity" but to balance these conscientious evenings, he tells of several occasions when he got through Latin class only by a "squirt," which was nineteenth century jargon for a good guess in an unprepared recitation...
...progress to this distinction began only 39 years ago. He was probably the ugliest little squirt in Chambers County, Ala., where he was born. A skin disease pocked his face. His body was small, his complexion an unlovely red. His father was a farmer, none too well off, and Claude went to work when he was a boy. He taught grammar and high school, worked in a steel mill, rolled coal and ashes in a power plant to buy food during his first half-year at the State University. Then he got a job running a dining hall, thankfully gave...
...deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group of epithets schoolboys apply to townies, the lowest form of animal life, or schoolmates they dislike. Samples: swine, tick, cad, oik, lout, drip, squirt, scug, goof. Townies often retaliate: e.g., their name for schoolboys of Durham University is varsity tits...