Word: damn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Always go easy on reproducing oratorical violence-even though some diplomats resent it. Last year in Berlin, a British delegate branded a colleague's statement as a "damn lie." Mathieu rendered this in French as: "The honorable gentleman has not told the facts in a manner which checks with the information which I myself have on those facts." The Britisher insisted that all he had said was: "That is a damn...
...Lake, Me., near his birthplace of Monmouth. While still a medical student at McGill University, Montreal, he married and sired two sons, later worked as a night clerk in a Manhattan hotel to help pay his way through New York University. A classmate claims that he "slept through every damn lecture...
...London. His daughter Katey wrote: "More tragic and far-reaching in its effect was the association of Charles Dickens and Ellen Ternan and their resultant son than that of Nelson and Lady Hamilton and their daughter. My father was like a madman. He did not seem to care a damn what happened to any of us." Mrs. Dickens was expelled (with a pension) from her husband's home at Gad's Hill, and her sister, Georgina, who was friendly to Ellen Ternan, was made mistress of the house...
Bulls for Buses. "I can just see that damn pile of pink pesos down there waiting for American business," groaned a Commerce Department official in Washington last week. But whether much of that money went to the U.S. depended on how quickly the U.S. could forget the way Argentina's rulers cottoned up to Nazi Germany in World War II. For Russia had sent a trade delegation to Buenos Aires presumably to offer Soviet tractors, trucks and combines for wool, hides, and blooded pampa bulls to build up Russia's war-depleted herds...
...failed to win friends with a policy of appeasement, Maloney told Assistant President Jimmy Byrnes that Bowles was the man to head OPA. ''What's wrong with him?" asked Byrnes. Replied Maloney: "Only two things. He was on the America First Committee and he's damn fool enough to want to come to Washington...