Word: damn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediately Communist cries of "gangster diplomacy" rang out. They were answered promptly by bull-tongued Admiral William F. Halsey, who snorted: "It's nobody's damn business where we go. We will go anywhere we please." Of course blustering "Bull" Halsey, whose diplomatic age is about seven and a half, was a bad boy to say it. But many an inhibited career diplomat and citizen were glad that...
With this as a springboard, Elliott-who admitted that he was at the conference solely as "errand boy and drink mixer"-used the rest of his article to damn the British on general principles, Churchill "for his anti-Russian stand," "Washington cocktail-party gossipers" for predicting...
Sometimes he had to lead his horse by lantern light over muddy mountain trails. When autos came along, he bought a Reo, which ran sometimes, but "mostly I just cranked and cranked at the damn thing and then went and hitched up the horse." He was also the company doctor. During the bitter 1910 Colorado coal strike, miners stoned his children. Doc sent his family to Denver, strapped a six-shooter on his hip, grimly made his rounds...
...strains at such gnats as "hell" and "damn" but is willing to swallow the camel of antireligion. The only trouble with religion in Russia is that the Russian constitution permits freedom of religion, but in the same breath guarantees freedom of antireligion. . . . Atheists should have no more freedom in the sale of their wares than dope peddlers, and for the same reason...
...Yugoslavs get word that the Italians are going to destroy anything, they will force their way across our lines and then we'll be in a hell of a spot. I've tried to explain to the Italians. But it's damn difficult to convince them...