Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gridiron series began in 1882, but the rivalry didn't. The Crimson won the first 18 games, and teams had met 16 times before Dartmouth could get the damn ball over the goal-line...
Yankee Buccaneer (Universal-International) is vaguely based on the life & times of U.S. Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, whose classic "Damn the torpedoes!" was uttered when he sailed through the Confederate mine fields during the battle of Mobile Bay in 1864. The picture is a Technicolored version of some of Farragut's pre-Civil War activities when he sailed in 1823 on a U.S. mosquito fleet assigned to scuttle West Indies pirate ships...
...with the Dever pin watched the police take the barriers apart and push them into their paddy wagon. "Damn good speaker," he said. "And damn decent. Makes a good impression. And a very courteous crowd, too. It's good that they gave him a hearing. He's a nice young man. Last time one like that came down here, it was Coolidge. They threw rocks. And then this Lodge's father was down once too. A very distinguished old gentleman. It's good to let people hear for themselves. I'm very glad they didn't throw rocks...
Kohen showed him to an upstairs stockroom filled with paintings, told him to take his pick. "You've got too damn many pictures here," said the President ruefully as he started looking them over...
According to several undergraduate researchers the cigarettes "are too damn mild," and one Ike follower voiced regret than his pack wasn't any longer than that of a Stevenson...