Mr. Lubenow stuck initially to his editor's script, asking Mr. Armstrong to
>> name his favorite musician. (Bing Crosby, it turned out.) But soon he
>> brought up Little Rock, and he could not believe what he heard. "It's
>> getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country," a
>> furious Mr.
>> Armstrong told him. President Eisenhower, he charged, was "two
>> faced," and
>> had "no guts." For Governor Faubus, he used a double-barreled hyphenated
>> expletive, utterly unfit for print.
I wouldn't normally hyphenate m***********. Unless it was someone who
had actually f***ed his m*****, in which case the hyphen might help to
disambiguate things a little, e.g. Oedipus was a m*****-f***** who may
or may not have also been a m***********.
Dominic
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