Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gosh! Shucks! Gee whiz! Jody and Ham a-settin' thar in the White House bitin' them nails and burpin' Tab while talkin' about folks who is "less eclectic philosophically" stirs the juices of us dung stampers in Wisconsin. Them is our kind of people...
...know a lot of people, and I can understand it, say 'Gee whiz, it just isn't fair, you know, for an individual to, ah, get off with a pardon simply because he happens to have been President, and when another individual goes to trial, and maybe had to serve a prison sentence for it.' I can understand how they feel. I can only say that ... no one can know how it feels to resign the presidency of the United States. Is that punishment enough? Oh, probably not. But, whether...
...when he was a missionary they really had to discipline the heathens. I looked around and saw nothing but people stepping out to St. John's and Fordham for their admission interviews. With my faith shaken by memories of the last heathen Ignatius had to discipline--an unfortunate physics whiz who three years earlier had barely survived the fall-out when Ignatius heard he was on his way to Yale--I decided it was time for a heavy-duty campaign...
...plan for peaceful uses of atomic energy, and served as the senior U.S. adviser at nuclear test-ban negotiations with the Soviet Union. Recalls an associate: "He was intense, bright, driving and dynamic, but neither patient nor comfortable with people." In 1961, Brown became one of Robert McNamara's "whiz kids." At 33, he was given the Pentagon's third highest civilian job, director of defense research and engineering...
...state legislature to raise the minimum to $150,000 and to require the state to pay half of this sum. Garguilo said of Connolly, "He never did it and he never returned my calls. Connolly went back on his word." When informed of her comments, Connolly said, "Gee whiz. We just got so involved we didn't have time...