Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Toehold. Then the bored Connally perked up. The Republicans' Harold Stassen appeared, to damn the Wherry resolution and coolly out-badger fuming and contentious Senator Kenneth Wherry. And the next day Thomas E. Dewey, in his first appearance before a congressional committee, dealt his isolationist colleagues one of the most demolishing forensic blows they had yet received...
...horse did in the 82nd Division. Although the general is aware of the showmanship value of his grenade, no one who knows his past record doubts that he would welcome a chance to throw it. Cracked a marine sergeant, after seeing Ridgway at close quarters, "At least the damn grenade wasn't polished like somebody said...
...American. "I can understand why you want to go to Stevens Institute of Technology. You want to be an engineer, but they haven't got any big-time sports there, and if you can get past the entrance exams, you'll have to wash dishes, stoke furnaces and damn near starve to get by. Now, if you come to my place, we'll give you free room, board, and tuition, a good job in the summer and enough spending money so you'll never have to take your girl home in the subway or even a taxi. You'll have...
There is a bushel of fine war photography in the "Halls of Montezuma" and some suspenseful plot development from its director Lewis Milestone (whose "Salerno Beachhead" is playing down the street). Unfortunately, it tends to deify an individual whom I consider a damn fool and a type of thinking which could stand some careful serutiny, war threat or no war threat...
...feel that what I have to say to you about that damn pipe, comic-opera boots and two-gallon hat will be of some political benefit . . . Honestly, Dan, do you think having your picture taken for public consumption with your feet up on a desk, with your hat on and that smudge pot in your mouth, adds any dignity to yourself or the important office of governor? . . . If you do, you should have stayed down in the sandhills of west Texas, where the boys come into town on a Saturday riding a mountain lion and using a live rattlesnake...