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...satire? It breaks out when least expected." He was either very dull or very sharp with the ladies, they were never sure which. When gay Hannah Quincy coyly told him she knew some Latin and offered "Puella amat puer," John quickly countered: "Puella what? . . . The object of the verb takes the accusative, in Latin. If you are trying to say the boy loves the girl .. . Or do you mean, possibly, the girl loves...
...were coping this week with a brand-new vernacular. In a pre-game TV interview with Manager Casey Stengel, big, ham-handed Dizzy Dean boomed: "You ain't a-woofin' about that, brother!" The fans also noted, for future reference, that the Arkansas-born announcer conjugates the verb to swing as swing, swanged, swunged...
Using the verb "deplore" once more, Acheson aimed it at Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who had just asked his obedient congress for power to declare war on "any nation," i.e., Cuba, which he suspected of sheltering his foes. Said Acheson: "The government deplores the action of the Dominican Republic in having brought up the possibility of the use of armed force for the purpose of 'war.' It is our profound conviction that the use of this term is ... inappropriate...
Jones' most important contribution to the argument for intellectual freedom is a long-needed clarification of the "confusion between the verb 'to teach' and the verb 'to indoctrinate,'" a confusion which made worse recent Massachusetts anti-Communist legislation...
...bosses pour onto the sidewalk and gather in clots at the curb under the glowering sun. Above the bray of automobile horns, hunched, rumpled men shout in Yiddish, Italian and English, leaning against the clogged trucks, stepping out of the way of rattling racks of dresses without missing a verb or a gesture...