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Word: damn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evaluating our Navy, we should recall some of its famous mottoes: "Don't give up the dollars," "I have not yet begun to spend," and "Damn the budget cuts, full shipbuilding ahead." Then there is that service's great battle hymn: "Billions away, my boy, billions away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1978 | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...shows look little different from those just announced by ABC and CBS, and the accent is on good-looking girls and guys. "Nobody gives a damn about the subject," says Joel Segal, senior vice president of the Ted Bates advertising agency. "The theme will be dopey broads and handsome men. Women mostly control the tube, and NBC's hope is that enough of them will spot one of their pretty men and stick around." Adds TV Consultant Mike Dann: "The trend is toward fantasy. There is more flesh exposed, but there really isn't much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Waiting for Freddie: Part 2 | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...nature, a greyhound aficionado, and had it not been for reading period I might never have ridden the blue line ten stops out to Wonderland last Friday night. The search for heady adventure had seized me. Saying "damn" to my 600-page portable Veblen, I took off for the tracks in fine, Kerouac fashion. I even managed to talk this friend of mine into coming, a guy who had an exam on Marx the next morning...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Going to the Dogs | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...Death--Late adult transition. Time to give up authority, the center stage, to accept limitations. Having paid his dues to society, a man can pretty much do whatever he damn well pleases as long as circumstances of health and security allow. Much less is known about this period than the earlier ones...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: It's Just This Crazy Phase I'm Going Through | 5/17/1978 | See Source »

...pseudo-daring "tough" script by ol' Arthur Laurents.... well, the ingredients are right for a classic stage, and then film musical. The Whites against the Puerto-Ricans here (you notice there are no blacks--it would be illegal for Natalie Wood to go black-face), and the damn thing is so ridiculously dated, so badly dubbed (the singing, that is--it may remind you of TV variety show dubbing), and so obviously "acted," that it should stand as one of the most howlingly, unintentionally bad movies ever to come out of Hollywood. Which means you'll love it, expecially during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Cinema of Paradise: Carne, Bogart, Astaire ... ... Woody, Dustin, and Deliverance-- from finals | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

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