Word: wuz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motel there that Beatty felt the first trickle of the torrent of controversy that would follow the film. "A huge waiter came in," he recalls, "and said to me, 'Hey Warren, 'at trew yew gone play Clahd Barra? Sheee! I knowed Clahd Barra, and he wuz much better lookin' than yew are.' " As it happens, Clyde Barrow was not much better looking than Mr. Hyde.* The encounter was simply an initial indication that Texas folk heroes are never to be taken lightly-and that the story of Bonnie and Clyde had the power to shock...
...surprisingly, eight of the ten losing Vietnamese presidential candidates cried "we wuz robbed!"-before the votes were totted. Such protests, said former Ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge, one of the observers, reminded him of the Tammany maxim: "Claim everything, concede nothing, and if defeated, allege fraud." Added Lodge: "I don't know why we treat some of the utterances of disappointed people over there any differently from the way we treat our own politicians here. A good old irreverent attitude toward some of these charges is somewhat in order...
...most powerful union of them all, the United Steelworkers of America, is still stuck in stalemate after a Feb. 9 election in which Incumbent President David McDonald was apparently defeated by Challenger I. W. Abel. Both sides have taken their subsequent "We wuz robbed" charges to the courts...
...Your good white Christian ancestors brought my good African savage ancestors to America against their will and against your religion. Once here, you fed them your table scraps and butcher slops. Animal entrails were among the slops, but African ingenuity-praise de Lawd-was the victor, and chitlins "wuz" born...
Constitutionally opposed to authority, Mauldin attacked the military caste system without mercy. "Them buttons wuz shot off when I took this town, sir," growls a slovenly Willie to a spit-and-polish rest-area lieutenant. "One more crack like that," snarls a private to a major, "an' you won't have yer job back after th' war." Inevitably, this kind of enlisted man's license landed Mauldin in trouble. It culminated in a personal confrontation with Lieut. General George S. Patton in Luxembourg...