Word: damn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republic and the leaders of tomorrow." Besides, "if you draft Negro boys into the army, give them three good meals a day, a good uniform and let them shoot craps and drink liquor around the barracks for a year, they won't be worth a tinker's damn thereafter...
...That British hospitality is fine when you get it-but damn hard...
Senator Tom Connolly, fancy-dressing, fancy-swearing Democrat from Texas, uttered a prosaic "damn" on the Senate floor, got tutted by Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, ex-undertaker, who considered the word "beneath the dignity of the Senate." Connally promptly withdrew the word ("I know my colleagues are delicate"), swore he was just quoting somebody else, and thus "it wasn't my word...
...dinner in the Gran Hotel, Rios heard speakers damn the Somoza regime. Since the Chilean embassy is located in the hotel, it was technically inviolable. Somoza's police, attempting to enter and arrest the speakers, were thrown out. Later the police formed a cordon around the hotel. Some Nicaraguans stayed on & on, not daring to leave...
Says Taylor of the streamlined storehouse: "We want to overcome the feeling of the public that they have to see the whole damn thing on a Sunday afternoon." Already so big that museum guards can safely hold pistol practice in the basement, the new Met will be enough to occupy an art lover's entire vacation...