Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading your description of Frenchman Emmanuel's opinion of American students, I must comment that the exact same criticisms can be made of the French. If they are such damn good history students, they should realize that fraternization and placation of the Communists will accomplish nothing ... If ambivalent French politicians dally with the Reds any longer, and continue to block EBC, they will soon be aware of a new cultural heritage-Communist style. American students . . . can see the obvious...
Lockheed's big project will be dedicated to what Quesada calls "the delivery problem." Says he: "Today we can build a thermonuclear weapon with as much yield as we want. The problem is how to get the damn thing there." To find the answer. Quesada will tap 200 of the country's top scientists, give them absolutely free reign to wander through the problem at an 80-acre laboratory in Van Nuys, have them delve into theoretical electronics and upper-air travel. He will pay high salaries, encourage them to soak up academic atmosphere by letting them teach...
...Oklahoma would restrict the suffrage to those who had something more in their heads than can be gotten from "country" music and singing commercials, no candidate would ask for votes on the ground that he was "the best damn cowboy singer in the world." Democracy should not be degraded to a device for the amusement of morons...
...Feet in the Fire." The team of Martin and Halleck is a powerful combination. While Martin is making tactful requests, Charlie Halleck. ruddy-nosed and glint-eyed, is charging up and down the aisles of the House chamber, telling his troops, "Damn you, you've got to be with us on this one. The President needs your support. So do I." The session's crowning personal success for Halleck was the farm bill, which he saved from defeat under farm-bloc opposition to Agriculture Secretary Benson's sliding price scale of 75% to 90% of parity. Halleck...
Fletcher Riley, a candidate for governor, was stopped by California police on the way to visit his estranged wife and relieved of a revolver and a rifle. Charley Huff, running for secretary of state, limited his plea for votes to the boast that he was "the best damn cowboy singer in the world." In Sequoyah County, E. W. Floyd, a brother of the late Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, won the Democratic nomination for county sheriff. And Homer Cox, just declared sane after his mother asked an examination by a sanity board, lost his race for secretary of state. Sighed...