Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adams. The only dissent would come from Illinois' Everett Dirksen, who would drop tut-tutting footnotes in defense of his friend McCarthy...
According to Biographer Hinks, Caravaggio was a violent genius who cast a mighty long shadow. Born in 1573 in the north Italian town of Caravaggio, he went to Rome at 18 and almost immediately captured the capital by his talent for naturalistic painting, although contemporary academicians tut-tutted his ignorance of Raphaelesque composition and decorum. He worked directly from nature, without preliminary sketches, and painted sacred history as if it had all happened just around the corner...
What was all this hoarse shouting and furious trampling about? There was little or no reliable sign of another East German uprising like that of last June, tut the Soviet zone population was still restless and bitterly resentful, judging by the 16,600 refugees who slipped out under the Iron Curtain in October...
...recondite to accomplished Scrabblers. Gnus are African antelopes, nix is accepted dictionary slang for "nothing" or "I don't allow," a zax is a sharp-pointed tool used in roofing, tut is a mild chiding exclamation...
RECREATION Gnus Nix ZaxTut In the dusk of many summer evenings, for the quiet time when television cloys and the children scuttle in chase of the Good Humor man, an ever-growing slice of the U.S. public has found a new diversion. Its name: Scrabble. Its components: a board with 225 squares, 100 small wooden counters bearing letters of the alphabet, two to four players, ability to spell (or a handy dictionary) and a few ounces of competitive spirit...