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The Public Burning choose

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[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 412: What a wind! It come rippin’ hell’s bells outa the north as big as all outadoors.
at all outdoors, n.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 407: I been busy as a one-armed paperhanger with the nettle rash.
at busy as a one-armed paper-hanger (adj.) under busy as..., adj.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 271: The b-girl retaliates by conking him over the head.
at B-girl, n.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1998) 55: We had two kids — whap bang! — before she even knew what hit her, and for a couple of years there it was pretty fantastic.
at whap bang!, excl.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 415: It ain’t over yet! Nosirree, bob.
at no siree (bob)!, excl.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 97: I’d go do it tonight, if I wasn’t so bodaciously whacked.
at bodaciously, adv.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 431: ‘Hey, zorch, man!’ his hepcat fans holler.
at hep-cat, n.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 100: Listen, this is my circus, you old coot.
at circus, n.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 410: ‘Cock’s body,’ swore Uncle Sam.
at cock, n.1
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 651: If you ain’t the all-starten skittiest crittur in all Hail Columbia!
at hail Columbia, n.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 271: The b-girl retaliates by conking him over the head with another beer bottle.
at conk, v.2
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 615: The 30th First lady of the Land and the prettiest in a coon’s age.
at coon’s age (n.) under coon, n.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 92: Uncle Sam cranks up the Voice of America wattage to stimulate new riots.
at crank, v.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 597: My God! It’s a creeping socialist!
at creeping, adj.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 517: And that word ‘integer’ was a jimdandy, too!
at jim dandy, n.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 411: No more time-outs, son, it’s [...] root-hog-or-die-time!
at root, hog or die, v.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 592: We don’t need no more of your hissin’ and blowin’ and generally discombobulatin’ splutterations!
at discombobulate, v.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 105: Willis Robertson, yellow-dog Democrat from Virginia.
at yellow dog, n.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 170: Greenglass, by comparison, was just some dumbnuts YCL on-the-make Army kid.
at dumbnuts (adj.) under dumb, adj.1
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 116: Those squonks can haul off and (puff!) exfluncticate [...] the whole durn shootin’ match.
at exflunct, v.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 436: Here’s spit in your eye, son!
at here’s mud in your eye!, excl.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 245: Is Richard Nixon a Farting Quacker who dreamt of selling his pajamas at Coney Island?
at farting, adj.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 256: Just what the Rosenbergs had to look forward to. ‘Flaming Reds’, the papers called them.
at flaming, adj.1
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 115: So that was why I had been accused of the secret slush fund!
at slush fund, n.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 431: ‘Hey, zorch, man!’ his hepcat fans holler — which is fuzzbeard lingo for the ‘colossal!’ of their folks’ generation.
at fuzzface (n.) under fuzz, n.2
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 110: Moonshine! Chicanery! The ole gum game!
at gum game, n.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 168: Maybe the FBI had told David that they already had the goods on Ethel and Julius.
at have the goods on someone (v.) under goods, n.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 446: ‘Great balls of fire!’ he whoops.
at great balls of fire! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 446: Deeds, not words: that was Ike’s hewgag.
at hewgag, n.
[US] R. Coover Public Burning (1979) 120: That hodag’s known to have a lotta contacts.
at hodad, n.
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