Word: yam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaks of him 'trippingly on the tongue' as 'that God damn Roosevelt,' short, snappy and staccato-but without grinding the vocal gears. The other crowd snarls it savagely, adagio, making two words out of God-like Gaw-ud-and two out of damn-like da-yam-growled with heart-pumping scorn and generally with a table-pounding drum beat. I belong to the lighter, staccato left wing...
...shore war tickled ta find out this war leep yar. i yam awful bashful an i war shore hatin ter ax a boy to be a gittin hitched with me this yar, an being as how im ateen which means Ise gittin purty old which means Id best git me a man this year cause itle be fore more yars for i git a chance agin...