Word: damn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl answered. He spoke (too quickly, damn it), "Hello, Jean, this is Martin...
...uncovered so much resentment that repression was reinstituted almost immediately. Ho, however, was never blamed for repression: skillfully, he divorced himself in the public mind from that harsh entity known as government. As British Journalist James Cameron put it, the people seemed to say: "This or that is a damn nuisance, the government is pushing us around again. But Uncle Ho says it is all right, so we suppose it must...
Fortunately, each of us holds exactly one vote in determining how the language shall be used, and there ain't a damn thing that Goldman, Barzun, et al., can do except bitch about...
...People here just don't give a damn," sighs W. T. Westbrook, sanitation director of Bowie County (Texas). He cares, but is clearly no Pied Piper. When he arrived on the fetid scene two years ago, he personally showed community leaders the filth, started keeping count of rat-bite victims and battled city hall for revisions in the sanitation code. All in vain. So he organized his own two-man rat patrol...
...knew about the injustice and poverty intellectually, but we had to feel it before it became meaningful." Bob Brower, who teaches at New York State University's Urban Center in Brooklyn, learned firsthand about ghetto justice by spending an afternoon in court with his youthful tutor. "That damn judge," he said, "was handing down decisions he made before he ever saw the facts. It was like processing hamburger meat, just put it in the grinder." Tom Carey, of North Hennepin State Junior College in Minnesota, says of his one-month exposure to the streets: "I have been turned inside...