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Word: dammit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rise. The cheer turned to silence and then to boos as the stock, like a plane that has suddenly stalled, winged over and began to fall. At a trading station, a specialist berated a clerk who had just placed a slice of pizza on a pile of papers. "Dammit!" he shouted. "The bottom's falling out of the market, and you're stuffing your face with mozzarella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: At the Exchange: Controlled Pandemonium | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...that a 1 a.m. curfew will be put into effect. An exception will be made for those attending the "Rocky Horror Picture Show." Norchi senses the futility and grows angrier: "If you think there should be a curfew and kids should be in bed at 1 o'clock, then, dammit, put them in bed." One local school, Belmont Hill, has come without a faculty chaperone. They threw a toga party on the 25th floor the night before. One of the members of their delegation posed as a teacher and signed them in. Chuck's problems have just begun. A staff...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Holding Down the Fort | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

...number, dammit, if we could measure it, we would know the answer," Field added...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Astronomy Professor Discusses The Direction of The Universe | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

...frame. We're in the basement-level Forum Room at the Copley Plaza, downtown Boston. A 31-year-old Nieman Fellow on rapturous leave from The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C., is burbling to no one in particular that the Bloody Mary they've served him before lunch, dammit, just won't do. At all. "It's pure Campbell's tomato juice," he sniffs petulantly...

Author: By Richard L. Nichols, | Title: Back to the Grind | 5/2/1978 | See Source »

Control Data is studying cities in which to start, and Norris is talking with some mayors, seeking support. "Dammit," he snorts, "rebuilding the cities will be one of the great growth industries of the future. It will replace the auto as the big provider of jobs- if we Americans can ever get ourselves organized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View: Planting in the Ghettos | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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