Word: dammit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thom in central Laos after the royal army fled. U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Harry Felt himself flew into Udon to try to buck up the pro-Western army chief, General Phoumi Nosavan-but with no noticeable results. Complained one military man in Vientiane: "This is war, dammit, but the Laotians are just not willing to risk getting killed. They don't think past tomorrow, and many not even as far ahead as tonight." In the event of a major attack by the Pathet Lao, he added gloomily, "the army will scuttle off like rabbits...
Jabbing a finger toward his desk chair, Dwight Eisenhower told a recent White House visitor: "Listen, dammit, I'm going to do everything possible to keep that Jack Kennedy from sitting in this chair...
...wives and sweethearts began to ask why British menfolk had to wait for an American news magazine to appreciate them, latent male jealousy asserted itself. "On behalf of the Brit ish male," wrote the Star's Columnist Colin Frame, "I resent the implication that we have no judgment. Dammit all, 99.9% of us marry them, don't we?" Britain's Independent Television News set up cameras on Bond Street near TIME-LIFE'S London office, and after some beauty-spotting (to a background reading of TIME'S text), concluded: "TIME...
...Dwight Eisenhower returned to Washington in a down-to-business, where's-everybody-else-been mood. To Republican congressional leaders gathered at the White House, he made it bouncily clear that he intends to push hard for his own program and fight hard against unwelcome Democratic programs. "Dammit," he said, "don't you fellows forget that I'm going to be around for quite some time...
...melancholy experience: "Smoking is easy to give up; I've done it hundreds of times." They are also liable to feel pretty bad-tempered. Another author became so testy when he gave up smoking that his wife finally stuck a lighted cigarette in his mouth and shouted, "Smoke, dammit, smoke!" That could well be the battle cry of the U.S. tobacco industry...