Word: damn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House press conference Franklin Roosevelt denied having used the exact cuss word TIME reported, said that his words to the head election official had been, "Tom, the damn thing won't work," advised the White House Correspondents' Association to defray the expense of sending the errant reporter to an ear specialist. TIME will gladly undertake that expense-as well as the cost of examining the ears of the five other reporters and photographers who heard the same thing...
Said General MacArthur's tall, lean, sandy-mustached chief engineer, Brigadier General Leif John ("Jack") Sverdrup: "It's marvelous country to raise rice, but damn poor country to raise airfields." Sverdrup had once built an airfield on New Guinea in six days, five hours, 10 minutes. That was impossible on Leyte. But his ingenious engineers cut corners where they could. One airstrip was complete except for 120 feet, under water. They got a plane to race its props and blow off the water, dried the ground with a flamethrower, then hastily put down a hard surface...
...facts about gripe No. 1: We have spent 24 months overseas. ... In that time we have been no closer to civilization than Guadalcanal. Understand, we are not complaining; we are just trying to show G.I. Joe that he isn't having too tough a time by a damn sight. We entertain no dreams of prolonged Stateside duty when & if we do return...
...damn it, George, you'll kill them all," protested the General. Kenney said he was damned if he would; MacArthur was convinced. The bantam moved in men, ammunition, food, vehicles. MacArthur's coastal campaign...
...push, the madder he got; almost everyone he bumped was wearing some convention badge. Near the crowded elevators, his eye fell on the long list of conventions and meetings on the bulletin board. This was more than ODT's boss could bear. He roared: "There are more damn conventions in Chicago this week than there should be in the entire country...