Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began: "Here on the spot it sounds rather ridiculous to hear Washington-" He was interrupted by a cry of warning. He squinted at the sky, his shoulders hunched instinctively and he dived for shelter, suddenly heedless of any TV audience as he muttered in disgust: "Here comes a damn plane!" The interruption made a vivid TV fragment this week in Algeria Aflame, an hour-long CBS report that brought home, with the immediacy of an air raid, the war between the French and the Moslem nationalists...
...damn shame the Court had to stir all this up. The Klan was dead till this happened. Nobody talked lynching, and between the Court and the legislature they were even trying to help the niggers some, what we could afford. Now everybody's scared, black and white. They don't talk to you any more. And the shame is that most of those niggers don't want to go to school with white people any more than we do with them. They want good schools, sure. But where the schools are the same, they'll stick together mostly...
From the North, in response to these moans among the magnolias, came rapid assurance that Liberal Democrats no longer cared a Yankee damn about Southern salvation. National Chairman Butler lightly dismissed threats of a Southern bolt; said he: "The balance of power is moving towards the Pacific." Said Illinois Liberal Paul Douglas of a third party: "I would welcome it. It would mean getting the Dixiecrats out of our party...
...third day Bob was getting restless. Rudely he called Rex a "damn dog," strapped the boy to a tree and chained up the dog, then took off. "When he went," said Lee, "I remembered how Wild Bill Hickok got loose in a TV picture when he was tied up like that. I figured I shouldn't be sitting around in the brush like that, doing nothing, so I worked my wrists trying to get loose. Then I reached around with my teeth and got that bar in the buckle to drop loose." Releasing Rex, Lee made for the nearest...
...songs. There are a lot of them. Josh Jr.--he's 16--and some I'm training, and Stan Wilson, and Dean Gitter will be good some day, and a pupil of Lead Belly's--I can't think of his name--on the twelve string guitar, who's damn near as good." He brought himself up short and stretched his hands wide apart. "By damn near as good, I mean that's a lot of difference...