Word: dammit
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...look you guys, shoulders back, and dammit, no wiggling or waving...
...These damn pledge periods go on so long it's impossible to get much studying done, dammit. And now Hell Week is coming up, and all studying will be impossible. Besides--all the fraternity parties around here are all the same--the rooms are the same, everything is the same. . . . But this place--with one bathroom for a whole damn corridor--is worse. I'm sick...
...lessons to be learned, too. The class had hardly started last week when Wingback Hunter twisted away from his partner with an expression of considerable pain and asked: "What should you say if the girl steps on your foot?" Another student was apparently faced with the same social problem. "Dammit," came his anguished answer from across the floor, "say 'ouch!'" Sooner or later, every man in the class learns for himself. "One day a guy's a woman, the next a man," explains Brock. Just so his students can tell the difference, he has the "women" wear...
...bully whose belief it is that "no boy [is] stouter than a good cane" and that a man is, after all, only a layman. Dev knows less about fertility rites than the boys. At 37, he has never made love to a woman ("It was the education in Ireland, dammit, he had said it many a time ... it was a matter of ignorance, pure and simple...
...doesn't really matter, because everything is in the hands of Colonel Buyers, a strong, silent type. In response to one Buyers order, a humane but misguided underling speaks up in a line of dialogue dear to a thousand movie writers: "Dammit, Buyers! . . . You're not God! There must be twenty thousand people trapped in there. They'll burn unless we get them out." There are at least 40,000, and the like of the fire that rolls over them has not been seen since David O. Selznick put the Technicolor torch to Atlanta in Gone With...