Word: damn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war he went to Europe with the OSS. He admits he doesn't know "a damn thing about the Polish Government." But he knows about democracy. "Democracy survives on wellfed people and on good business," he booms...
...royal stable is entered), swing music, nightclubs, and having her own way. But Elizabeth's rebellions are those of any headstrong, well-reared child suffering an overdose of family. "I'd like a car of my own," she told a friend recently, "but there's so damn much family talk about which make I must have that I don't think I'll ever get one." Her greatest insubordination to date followed the King's official announcement that the Princess would join none of the women's services. Elizabeth had other ideas...
Hulking, tough-talking Slim (for what he used to be) Lynch, 47, has found his new job no soft touch: "Jeez, I got so I could take the pictures they sent me out on with my eyes closed. This, brother, is different. Writing is damn hard work...
When Detroit's policeman-censor threatened to close Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten unless the actors stopped saying certain words, the words were just quietly dropped. Detroiters would no longer suffer the psychic trauma of: 1) "whore," 2) "bastard," 3) "God damn," 4) "son of a bitch," and 5) "blonde...
...Canadiens were tied with the New York Rangers, 0-0. During a melee around the Ranger cage, in slid the puck. But the goal was disallowed; the referee had blown his siffleur (whistle). "Sacré maudit!" (damn it all) groaned the fans, holding their heads in agony. Cried one to the referee: "Gros jambon, tu pues!" (you big ham, you stink...