Word: damn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick, when he limited plea bargaining, the city's criminal court judges complained that "they would have to spend a lot of time on the bench trying cases. My feeling was that they were getting paid full-time salaries, and they could damn well work full time...
...prominent Democrat: "Things continue to fall apart. A year ago we were saying that pretty soon Jimmy Carter would take hold of things. Six months ago we were saying that pretty soon Jimmy Carter would take hold of things. Now we are saying that pretty soon Jimmy Carter had damn well better take hold of things." Some Democratic congressional leaders in particular warn that they have just about given up on the President. Says one top congressional insider, gloomier and grouchier than most: "The possibility of rapport is gone. Like a bad marriage, it's just gone sour beyond...
...talking about making money this year, after losing nearly $900 million because of the drought and reducing their herds from 5 million head to 4 million. Says William Staiger of the Cattlemen's Association: "Last year there was no grass and no water. When the rains came, the damn grass sprouted all over the place. We can rebuild the herds in three years...
Other federal investigators insist that there has been no foot-dragging and no coverup. "The investigation is just complicated," says J.A. ("Tony") Canales, the U.S. Attorney for Houston. "You're damn right it is being done in unusual secrecy. I don't want to hurt anybody who is innocent. We are conducting an investigation with the FBI into certain business entities involved in the reselling of oil. I am informed that there were some 60 or 70 such businesses created almost overnight. Not all are under investigation, of course, but the investigation is mushrooming...
...learn to set their watches by before they finally decide to sell out and leave for good, the one that you rarely read about in the newspapers because nobody ever gets killed and it's mostly just broken windows and jaws, and really, who cares? because it happens every damn week. In South Jamaica every biological and social function is depressing--eating, breathing, getting up in the morning to look for a job, not finding it, rolling the drunks outside the railroad station...