Word: dammit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probably shouldn't call, but I think I've received a pretty bum rap from a lot of people. I don't want you to say I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread, because I don't believe that either. But, dammit, I'm good. I'm really good. I've taken a not-such-a-great play and made it work...
...daydream of an alternative self is a strange, flitting thing. This wistful speculation often occurs in summer, when a vacation loosens the knot of one's vocational identity. Why, dammit, says the refugee from middle management on his 13th day on the lake, why not just stay here all year? Set up as a fishing guide. Open a lodge. We'll take the savings and . . . The soul at odd moments (the third trout, the fourth beer) will make woozy rushes at the pipe dream. Like a gangster who has cooperated with the district attorney, we want...
While forceful, the President was not vindictive. "Dammit," he said privately to his aides, including Chief of Staff James Baker and Counsellor Ed Meese, "the law is the law, and the law says they can't strike. By striking they've quit their jobs." Later, Reagan noted publicly that the air controllers were "fine people," and added: "I do feel badly. I take no joy in this. There is just no other choice...
...strike has driven few fans into the stadium of the mind. After all, the weather is wrong. It is disconcerting to go "interior" around the first day of summer. The exterior stadium, dammit, should be operating now. Besides, no one knows how long the strike will last-these fine mental tunings cannot be made in all the haggling and tumult of a strike. Across the country, fans and reporters, radio and TV stations, have collaborated on a variety of athletic methadones meant to get them through the crisis. One afternoon last week, Oakland A's President Roy Eisenhardt...