Word: words
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Word of the reported rejection came from a source close to negotiation...
...sure, there always were a few who complained of irony in the word "jolly," but the wise knew this to be in jest. There were others who publicly scorned the walk over autumn leaves or mid-winter slush to the stuffy, overcrowded dance floors, but the floors never ceased to be packed. Some criticized the innocuous punch, the bad music, and the atmosphere, but everyone knew these scoffers were only the frustrated, the timid, the jealous and the lazy. All the world liked jolly-ups, and all the world was jolly. No one feared, for the jolly...
...pending international questions should not be settled by force but by peaceful means-by negotiation. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your hospitality and, as we say in Russia, for your bread and salt. Let us have more and more use for the short American word 'O.K.' " And Nikita Khrushchev was gone...
...there!" bellowed Garst, surprised and angry. "Bring those horses in here; ride 'em down." he commanded a mounted troop of Greene County Pleasure Riders. "Get back there or I'll kick you out. even if your name is Harrison Salisbury." he threatened, and as good as his word, he planted a sturdy Garst brogan on the leg of The New York Times's reporter-probably the mildest mannered of all the trespassers in the corn...
...Sammy's hungry, terrifying drive. Nor does it matter very much that the gutter gags had to be cleaned up, that the Jewish humor is sacrificed to the self-conscious contemporary convention that seldom allows so much as a smile with a racial or religious twist. Although the word is taboo, the poor exploited slob who ghosted Sammy's screenplays is still a nebbish; every now and then, Blyden's voice echoes with accurate Lower East Side accents...