Word: wee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provoke us into hostility. Our fathers brought us up to see them not as the representatives of ancient authority and unalterable law, but as rebels against our grandfathers. So naturally we have grown up to be on their side, even if we feel, on occasion that they were a wee bit hard on their fathers...
Brigadoon (MGM) on the Broadway stage was a wee Scots village that time forgot. On the CinemaScope screen it is a multimillion-dollar reconstruction on the Williamsburg plan, with every plastic daisy on the village green set in by hand, the sheep marcelled like chorus girls, the cottages authentic from the dew on the thatch to the sweat on the hob, and even the cricket on the hearth selected for what sounds like a Sottish burr...
This little pig went to market; This little pig stayed at home; This little pig had roast beef; This little pig had none; This little pig went wee-wee-wee All the way home...
When the recess bell sounded at 11:48 p.m. Saturday, the Senate, but for a 25-minute break in Friday's wee hours, had been in session for a record-shattering 85 hours, 33 minutes. At that point, the filibuster had only one major effect: it exploded Knowland's fond hopes for a Senate adjournment at month...
...open-air Casino for the first-night concert. There was a clear moon overhead as Oldtimer Eddie Condon, a little ill at ease in all the fresh air, stamped his foot four times and swung into Muskrat Ramble, sweeping along his bang-up Dixieland outfit, including Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Trumpeter Wild Bill Davison, Pianist Ralph Sutton. The music was hot, and the crowd warmed to it with shouts...