Word: damn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coughs, and finally begin. Over the years, those readings became a Harvard institution-long after Copey began to feel old ("Do you suppose I am ever to be well again? You must remember that I am 63 . . ."), and long after he retired ("I am 82 years old-God damn...
...turning out more than ever, "more and cheaper consumer services" are still needed. "As long as these needs exist, we should not worry about having a 'mature' economy. We still have a frontier to push forward." When it was over, one delegate commented: "This was a damn good speech. I say that, and I'm an old Tory...
...conference called to explain his actions, Rocky gave a convincing demonstration of a man who didn't know what hit him. Why had he quit training? "I had no ambition to throw punches. I'm boxing a couple of salamis and I don't give a damn if I get hit ... I don't know what the hell's the matter with me." Reporters asked him about a walnut-sized lump on his forehead and he said it was a souvenir of the last Tony Zale fight. Was he punchy? Rocky went on: "Every place...
...John Barrymore, o-n whom she had had a girlish crush. In any case, she knew, immediately on seeing him at a summer playhouse in 1937, that she wanted him. She rushed backstage afterward, threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. As Emery recalls it: "She damn near knocked my tonsils down my throat...
Handsome Dan, Yale's Bulldog, didn't have a very good day either. The Harvard Band came over during the half and blew in his car and then there was that damn turkey. A couple of guys, Harvard cheerleaders by the looks of them, brought this tough old bird over to do combat. But Dan wasn't having any, not with something that flew and pecked and scratched. He showed the turkey his rear and made it very plan he wanted to be left alone. After the game, when the noise really started, Dan made a boe-line...