Word: dammit
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...corridors, when they hurried back to London from holidays for consultations on Cyprus. Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 61, had a bandage on his right hand, while Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, 48, sported a smashing shiner. Both, however, were casualties in the never-ending struggle to relax, dammit. Wilson had banged his eye in a fall among the rocks of Cornwall's Scilly Isles; Sir Alec pricked his finger pruning roses at his Berwickshire estate...
...bearing bizarre names like Poker Flat, Star and Garter, Bald Eagle, River Liars and Lost Angels. The Grove routine is pretty shapeless, although each year a couple of glittering original shows are staged beneath the trees. This year the Bohemians did a musical about murder in a whorehouse called Dammit. Who Done It? in which, presumably, the moral was that too many crooks spoil the brothel. Occasionally, particularly learned or prized guests make informal, off-the-record speeches in the glade. Herbert Hoover has spoken there, and so have Dwight Eisenhower and Nelson Rockefeller. Attorney General Robert Kennedy addressed...
...Hollywood street it faces, Tamarind is a complex of white-stucco-walled buildings where the lights generally burn late seven nights a week. "This place is a kind of a pressure cooker," says Director Wayne, 46. "If you don't have a lot of time to fool around, dammit, you don't fool around." The time ends in 1965, when the Ford subsidies stop and Tamarind will have to try to carry on by itself...
...going to be elegant, dammit," promised the organizers a month ago, and it was nothing if not elegant. All the girls wore floor-length dresses, the floors of Agassiz ballroom were polished up to a high sheen, and even the janitor had on a black tie (with his dark suit...
...fight for what is due him, says Sasha. "Against whom?" rages the former hero. "In the war, we knew who our enemies were. Who? Who is guilty? What's happening to us? Are we lying to each other? Are we splitting with the party? I am a man, dammit, and I need the truth!" At local party headquarters he tries to get his flight status restored, instead gets the run-around from a circle of blank-faced bureaucrats squatting under a statue of their leader...