Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Midwest, often considered a seedbed for isolationists, the Journal speaks in a ringing, uncompromising, internationalist voice. In Senator McCarthy's home state, the Journal attacks him so fiercely that McCarthy calls it "that left-wing smear newspaper, the Milwaukee edition of the Daily Worker" Other readers, damning its doggedly independent, liberal ways, refer to it as "that damn Journal." (One prominent Milwaukeean pays his newsboy 25? a week to tear out the editorial page before delivering the paper.) Isolationist Chicago Tribune Publisher Colonel Robert McCormick, who considers the Journal a radical upstart in the Trib's Chicagoland, calls...
...here that Senator McCarthy fits in. It would seem that those who unthinkingly or sneeringly damn him should consider more fully the relativity of liberty. Complete liberty is impossible today; unrestrained, it could only produce chaos. Thus Senator McCarthy's actions may be legitimatize in consideration of his purpose. Tyrannically enforcing a democracy, his ethics may often be questionable, although they are essentially adapted to a useful end. This not only requires, but insists on, the harnessing of certain liberties, if they stray beyond their bounds. Yet this must not be taken to mean that every action of the Senator...
...Read Dryden Sir: Your closing sentence in the Fraden murder story, "Harlow was reading Dryden" [TIME, Dec. 28], may or may not come to have classic rank with "Veni, Vidi, Vici" or "Damn the torpedoes," but it will have at least as much effect as your suggestion (after last year's election) that the "eggheads" voted readers' for respect for Stevenson, in intellectual undermining effort your and our cultural heritage...
...with four-letter words"). NBC went even further: Sherwood got free run of the set, and the actors (Thomas Mitchell, Wendell Corey, Yvonne de Carlo, Gene Lockhart) were to listen to and obey all his instructions. Sighed Sherwood: "If it's a flop, it's my own damn fault...
...gives a damn? J. M. MACKENZIE Hampton...