Word: damn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they feel moral guilt for their aggression? A. In general, no. How the minority of unreconstructed militarists justify Japanese aggression to themselves can only be guessed - they are damn care ful right now to keep their mouths shut. At the opposite extreme the ardent peace advocates (like Kagawa) of course feel that the militarists are guilty. The great majority of Japs, including Premier Shidehara, believe in peace as a policy. But they still re gard Japan as the aggrieved party in the events leading up to the China war. They are not conscious of having adopted a national policy...
...bottle and frantically fervent in his adulation of Hitler and Naziism. "National Socialism has made an end to the bone-softening doctrine of life negation," he once said. "Germans are fanatics of life." When he was arrested last May, he moaned: "Life [without Hitler] does not mean a damn thing...
Meanwhile Danny's business boomed. From noon until the small hours soldiers, sailors, ex-servicemen and their girls crowded the bar to drink and damn the Bartenders' Union. A commander from the aircraft carrier Enterprise hurried to Danny's to announce that the picketing was a "damned shame." But Danny still had his troubles. Union drivers refused to deliver whiskey, and at times Danny seemed to be sweating slightly as drinkers cried, glass in hand: "You can't give in, Danny!" It was obvious that he couldn't-his clientele had gotten bigger and tougher...
...intolerance played in starting the war she was just in; 5) she'd be the first to complain if those who have it didn't spend it; 6) what's so much more essential about a fur coat and a swell watch than a debut?; 7) "damn" and "hell" are unbecoming when used in the same sentence by a lady in service who shows such interest in what's right; 8) her small-mindedness will make her "when I am broke" both certain and soon; 9) I doubt raising her family on her anti-social jealousies...
...Times, trying to damn the U.S. out of its own mouth, quoted first that old press baiter, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes: "When editors and publishers do not publish information or opinions which are extremely important for the interests of society as a whole, when editors distort events to serve special interests, and when they fabricate canards to blacken or eliminate unfavorable political candidates, then I the press deserves the severest criticism and condemnation...