Word: damn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know whether you're going to support me or not, and I don't give a damn; you're a bunch of political liabilities anyway...
...save our big stuff for Wednesday. In the end we suffer the same percentage loss. It's as though a family set aside $5 a week in their budget for pleasure, then decided to wait a month, save up $20 and blow the whole works on a damn good time...
...There's no place in the world as quiet as a battlefield before a battle," he mused aloud. Later, riding back, he met some field officers. "Hit 'em hard, boys," he said, "damn hard!" His jeep passed a signpost giving the kilometers to Rome: 192 (120 mi.). "That's not so far," he commented. "I remember seeing the first sign to Naples after landing at Salerno. It read 105 kilometers. We made it all right. Just as the boys of the Fifth Army will make Rome...
...seniors packing their gear, preparatory to their happy exit. It wouldn't be so hard to take if they wouldn't whistle and sing while packing; they seem to forget that we are sensitive human beings and must stick around for another two months. However, they've been damn swell to us and we wish them the best of luck...
...down under who expects to go under soon again, I think the idea swell. Your magazine means a lot out there to us. . . . I was once the delighted recipient of 17 copies of TIME in a row. After being thrown out of the Philippines, the mail service was damn bad. Everything finally got straightened out in Australia, and my favorite relaxation in the afternoon while resting up from two war patrols in an "S" class submarine was to get into the bathtub with a bottle of scotch and a copy of TIME and go to town. I did, 17 days...