Word: uh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uh, I already got the tickets for Friday night. Did your read in the Crimson? They seemed to think it was a pretty good flick. I'm kind a looking forward to it, aren...
...point, the student asks the reported, "Say, just what's the difference between you and the pigs?" The reporter replies, "Why I'm on your side! Up against the wall-uh, so to speak...
...commands the crowd. Four thousand arms shoot into the air. In the back, a little man caresses his Bible. "Please, sweet Jesus. Please, Jesus," he repeats. As the people pray, Allen lays his hands on the victim. "Heal!" he cries. "Heal her wounds in the name of Jeee-uh-zuss!" Already, the crowd is murmuring "Thank you, Jesus." The woman sits up. "Oh, thank God," she says. The nurse, at Allen's request, trundles her off to check the wounds in the ladies' room. She is back quickly. "There is new skin covering where the burns...
...duologue has its unforgiving rules: "You have to give the other his turn, and you give signals during his turn, like saying 'uh huh' or laughing at what he says, to show that he is having his turn. You must also refrain from saying anything that really matters to you as a human being, as it would be regarded as an embarrassing intimacy." A near-perfect example of duologue is the televiewer, transfixed by that mesmeric eye. A truly perfect duologue would be two TV sets tuned in and facing each other...
When a gawky young illustrator arrived at the Post one day bearing a large rectangle draped in black velvet, a staffer asked what he had. "It's uh-it's uh painting," he stammered. Indeed it was; the Post had found Norman Rockwell. Over the next 45 years, his hundreds of sentimental but sharply observed cover paintings-boy scouts and barbershops, April-fool jokes and baseball games-would come to represent the essence of the Post itself...