Word: whin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dunne missed few opportunities. The U.S. had developed imperial pretensions. There were "robber barons" and muckrakers, Prohibitionists and faith healers. Mr. Dooley matched wits with the mighty, and he usually put them down. One of the mightiest was Theodore Roosevelt, whose name Mr. Dooley always managed to mispronounce. "Whin Thaydore Rosenfelt kisses a baby," Mr. Dooley told his pal Hinissy, "thousands iv mothers in all corners of th' land hear th' report an' th' baby knows its been kissed an' bears th' hon'rable scar through life. Twinty years...
...other people. He takes it and puts it where it won' hurt thim an' they won't spoil it. He's a kind iv society f r th' previntion iv croolty to money." Mr. Dooley deplored the jingoism of the Spanish-American War: "Whin we plant what Hogan calls th' starry banner iv freedom in th' Philippines an' give th' sacred blessin' of liberty to th' poor, downtrodden people iv thim unfortunate aisles-dam thim-we'll larn thim a lesson. We can't give ye anny...
...champion, teed off into a howling gale sweeping in unannounced from the slate-grey firth, shot a horrendous 85, and caught the next boat home. Even in the sunniest of weather, the championship 7,045-yd. course is a clutching jungle of harsh gorse, spiny Scotch broom and impenetrable whin bushes. Ditchlike burns and sheerfaced bunkers dot the threadbare fairways; the postage-stamp greens are stubbly and unpredictable. Commuter trains clatter past while golfers sweat over tricky putts, and yowling jet airliners swoop low to land at Prestwick, only two miles away...