Word: uh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been making up without being utterly fluent in some European tongue. When he confounds you with a sudden French or Italian phrase and demands an accounting for the bland expression on your face, your play is this. "Why, I never had to learn any French. My mist . . . uh . . . a girl did all my interpreting." Needless to say, a discrete look around and a man-to-man tone of voice will enhance the effectiveness of this ploy. If your tormentor has been feminine, it is safe to say she'll leave you alone for the rest of the evening...
...seven, come eleven'-and each time she rubbed, her neckline got lower, wow. Finally, she threw the dice hard, shouted, 'There's my eleven!' grabbed her winnings and ran ... As she was disappearing, one croupier turned to the other and asked in a daze: 'Uh-did you see that eleven?' 'No,' said the other softly, his eyes still riveted on Ava's departing shape. 'Didn...
...gals from the Radcliffe NEWS," they said to us. "We've, uh, well, we're here to meet you. Take you back to Hanover." "Oh," we said...
First Crimed: Uh, do you have nay hobbies...
Beaming with pride, Chicago's silver-haired Democratic Mayor Martin Kennelly (rhymes with uh-nelly) had something to tell the reporters. He had just been elected to a second term as mayor and wanted it known that he wore no man's collar-not even the Democratic Party's. Said he: "I don't take it as an endorsement of any administration except...