Word: damn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his talk about other senators entering primaries in their states, McCarthy knows no one else is going to launch this challenge. "In a way he relishes the opportunity," one friend said. "He thinks he owes it to himself--which is pretty damn important--and although it sounds corny, he owes it to his party and his country...
...Well, damn if they aren't right, in a way. There's something to be said for assembling one hundred fifty young men in white tie on a single stage and letting loose their combined vocal chords. The sound of so titanic a Mannerchor would have sent Wagner writhing in ecstasy...
...received 2,000 votes to the winner's 6,000 in a district with 20,000 potential voters. The results were disappointing for Smith who had hoped against hope to get into the runoff, but he was not disillusioned. "For a man with my reputation, a Communist, a damn nigger lover, a radical and a peacenik, I did damn well," Smith beamed as he watched the results trickle in on the television at his home--campaign headquarters for the last three months...
...Viet Nam debate too often resembles a pingpong match between those who vociferously damn Lyndon Johnson for doing too much and those who chide him for doing too little to end the war. Yet for all the noise they make, so far, at least, the critics on both sides have been heavily outnumbered by the millions of Americans in the middle who, however confused or unhappy about the war, see no simple alternative to the Johnson Administration's present course and have no medium for their views. Last week the majority found a new voice...
...exercise, he jogs in place beside his bed each morning, then performs calisthenics. He plans to resume tennis next spring, already takes regular walks. "And walking," he added at week's end on vacation in Hyannis, Mass., "is becoming increasingly possible because I no longer give a damn whether I get somewhere in a hurry...