Word: ugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muscles of his "bronzed back writhed like snakes," he heaved the cannon overboard. It landed spang in the British boat below. The boat split wide open; King George's minions gasped and gurgled. "Great God o' the Mountain," cried Holdfast, "what a glorious fight!" "Ugh!" grunted one of Holdfast's Mohegan warriors, proudly eyeing the mighty torso of his chief...
...Stolen Life--at the University--Bette weeps and wails and makes with drahma, playing twins this time. If you like her, you get double value--otherwise. . . .ugh...
...profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer's ear than the ethereal fluting of the prairie lark is a sow's "pumping," the regular ugh, ugh, ugh, which means that the litter has discovered how to suckle and that the sow, heaving over with a sigh to expose her batteries of teats, has taken on the thankless task. In a fortnight the pig population on the Kuester farm may bounce from about 40 to something...
...characters are kept so busy ducking bullets, knives and pottery that they rarely get a chance to deliver a line, let alone muff one. But beauteous Yvonne de Carlo has competent support from strong-armed Rod Cameron and from a taciturn Indian who says "Ho" instead of "Ugh...
JAMES WHARTON Weems, Va. > Ugh...