Word: damn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five model health bills for the upcoming session of the legislature (including one to take health administration from the governor's control), had badgered Denver's Mayor Benjamin Stapleton into a promise to "consider" a city health survey. Said a Denver health official last week: "Hot damn-that woman is wonderful...
...Last week Josefina Novarra, 23, stood in a Mexico City kerosene queue and spoke her mind. "Look how we have to stand in line to get a little kerosene for our stoves," she grumbled. "And they want certain kinds of cans or they won't sell you any. Damn the whole Pemex outfit...
...damn, we don't have to look under the table any longer--there's a real live Red standing up!" In fact, there were twenty-four of them, straight from the Soviet Union. They had flown into Prague just two days before the opening of the Student's Congress--dark, semimongoloid Usbeke from Tashkent, tall Latvians from Rigs, and a dazzling blonde from the Ukraine...
...Gaulle had emerged briefly from retirement to damn the new M.R.P. constitution as little better than the Communist-Socialist constitution which Frenchmen narrowly rejected last May. He charged that it 1) made the Cabinet subservient to the Assembly; 2) "strongly" limited the powers of the President of the Republic, giving him "no capacity to do anything in any sphere...
Maestro Benny Goodman, the daddy of big band swing, summed up the plight of his fellow noisemakers: "The trouble is that they just play too damn loud. A guy who is good doesn't have to worry about trends...