Word: damn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glibly easy to nominate Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill or Stalin. But it was Lenin who started the main current of events which in one way or another brought out the greatness in these men . . . The acknowledgement should go to the man who started it all, Lenin, damn...
...thinks that the world began in 1921," he snaps, "has missed the boat as a human being." Before each of Shakespeare's plays, he carefully lays the scene-the Denmark of Hamlet, the England of the Henrys, a physical description of Cleopatra ("I fumble around with this damn business to make the past seem eloquent"). Then he launches into the plays themselves, acting out each part. "Students must experience Shakespeare," he says, "not just read his words...
...that the oil find "vindicated" him. "Some people think I'm a scoundrel and some think I'm a wonderful guy-depending on whether they made or didn't make money out here," he said. "But do you know what? I don't give a damn. I'm gonna eat for the rest of my life, I'll tell you that...
...Since buying the English car a month ago, Osgood has had it in Byrd's Garage in Cambridge. As his roommate explains the situation, "It's not that there's anything wrong with it. It's just that Mr. Byrd likes Rolls-Royces and we can't get the damn thing away from...
Straus 11-32 is cursed, not by a ghost or a biddy, but by a telephone. David G. Black, Raymond S. Ettlinger, Michael J. Balborstam and John B. Stadler, all freshmen occupants of the room, refer to Mr. Bell's invention as "that damn thing...