Word: damn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Chester Bliss Bowles picked up his office telephone and heard the voice of a farm-bloc Senator: "Damn it, Chet, everyone else is getting his cut. You've got to give the farmer...
...comrade in the second squad thinking a little thought of his own, all by himself? Let him beware. Let him remember Browder. If he isn't careful his name, too, will become a hissing and a mocking-there will be a sin called Smithism or Jonesism will damn him forever...
...misuse the expression "tinker's dam" by spelling it "tinker's damn" [TIME, Jan. 7]? ... The latter expression means nothing. A tinker's dam was really a dam made of clay, which the traveling tinkers used to surround a spot on a pan or kettle to keep the solder from spreading or running until it cooled, while [the utensil was] being repaired. As soon as the solder cooled, the dam was thrown away as useless and worthless. Hence . . . "tinker's dam" to denote something having no value...
...brakes on demobilization (TIME, Jan. 28) and why some 4,000,000 men are still needed in the Army had gone in one ear and out the other. The job, the Senators assured the U.S. last week, could be done with less than half that number and Ike had damn well better get them home...
...imagine what a man thinks about while he is in the hole or on the windy hill, or even in the cages trying to keep warm. Most of them think: 'Damn the Army, damn Truman, damn the U.S.' They get to hate their own country and their own people. They say: 'I hope we get into another war. ... I want to fight on the enemy's side.' I've heard men use these words. These are the men we are supposed to be teaching the principles of democracy...