Guv'ment

And I say this as a strong Obama supporter who fervently hopes that he can indeed set a new tone in the country, and finally put to rest that dangerous maxim that Reagan popularized "Guv'ment is the problem," and the Atwater/Rovian tactics that capitalized on that sentiment.

Are Obama's "New" Politics Really New? 2009

I once had an honest job working for the Guv'ment at the Social Security Administration.

On The Subject of Retirement Places 2005

All I et fo 'two yeahs in France wuz Guv'ment rashuns.

Lady Luck Hugh Wiley

Guv'ment, "he repeated meditatively but with rising rancour," what has the guv'ment ever done fer me, that I should be asked to do so much for hit?

Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

For if Guv'ment wos here, not the Alderman's Bench,

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

That Guv'ment owed me quite a pile for my arrears o 'pension, --

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

An 'it was' cos he was so strong for de Union -- an 'now de Guv'ment won't let his fambly have his money' cos dey's tryin 'to prove him destructively disloyal -- when he changed shots with his bes' friend 'cos he wouldn't set under de

In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

How's de Guv'ment gwine call a gen'elman 'destructively disloyal' when he ready any minit to pass shots with his bes 'fren's, ef dey don' 'gree with his pol'tics -- an 'his pol'tics is on de side er Marse Ab'am Lincoln an' de

In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

Stamps hes seen him in D'lisleville, an 'he says he's a-stavin' lookin 'young feller, an' thet thar's somethin 'about a claim on the Guv'ment thet ef

In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

Him an 'you de onliest heirs to de De Willoughby estate; an' ef a little hoosier what's los 'a yoke er oxen kin come down on de Guv'ment for' demnification, why can't de heirs of a gen'leman dat los 'what wus gwine ter be de biggest fortune in de South'n States.

In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886