Word: damn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call for yet another vote from the 700 members of the association-a process that would have taken at least two more weeks-Kuhn cut short a Florida vacation and flew back to Manhattan to offer a suggestion. Lock the door, he said succinctly, sit down and settle the damn thing. Both sides got the message. After a session that dragged on until 5 a.m., a settlement was made...
...Letting Go (1962), when one sunny day the middle-aged Fay Silberman "goes outside their place in South Orange and her husband is being driven all over the lawn in their power mower. He's dead in his seat, . . . a horrible thing. He crashed into a tree with that damn machine." Yup, having swallowed the American dream whole, Roth's Jews--like so many minorities before them--cough themselves to death as the hidden bones lodge in their throats...
...romantic conventions of his day. In an early poem, The Caucasian Captive, he had a maiden fall into a stream and the hero refuse to jump in and rescue her. "I've swum in Caucasian streams," Pushkin explained to a friend. "You can easily drown without finding a damn thing...
...year after that "they resorted to plagiarizing our listing by the simple method of cutting them out, pasting them in their paper, and reproducing them by their process of photo offset," Lewis said. "We pointed it out to the Business School, but apparently they didn't give a damn." Lewis added that the Globe too has "been known to borrow our material." "And not give it back," Mindich muttered Problems with the Business School became more serious that simple plagiarism; however, the issue became similar, in fact, to the current hassle over BAD's authorization on the Harvard campus...
Another ghetto school that so far seems to have escaped real strife is Detroit's St. Martin de Porres High School.* The reason may be that its tough-talking Negro principal, Joseph Dulin, 33, believes in confronting students before they confront him. "Damn you, nigger," he exploded at a student recently. "You stole them gloves. Now I'm gonna give you ten minutes to get them back to me." Eight minutes passed. Then the petrified freshman was back, sheepishly handing over the gloves. "These people are your family, don't you know that?" Dulin lectured...