Word: damn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during practice but some guys are superstitious and would rather not have anything to do with that cart.) You then head for the meetings with the coaches and there your coach goes over all the things you had prepared for the game. But by this time you are so damn nervous that you can barely listen and you even get the suspicion that the coaches are nervous because they don't really notice that your mind is a thousand miles away. They just keep talking because they feel kind of helpless when the game is being played so they just...
...could get a million dollars and you could get it in cash. I know where it could be gotten' Two. 'Your major guy to keep under control is Hunt?'" And so on, up to number 14: "Would you agree that this is a buy-time thing? You'd better damn well get that thing done, but fast' 15: 'Now who's going to talk to him, Colson?' 16: 'We have no choice.'"--and Nixon twisting that jowly face of his, looking more and more like what we always though he was best-suited for in life--an insurance agent...
...Hunt. On this tape, as it was introduced in the House Judiciary Committee hearings on Nixon's possible impeachment, Nixon says such things as: "You could get a million dollars. You could get it in cash ... Don't you think you have to handle Hunt's financial situation damn soon? ... We have to keep the cap on the bottle that much ... That's why for your immediate things you've got no choice but to come up with the $120,000, or whatever it is. Right? ... Would you agree that's a buy-time thing that you damn well better...
...didn't know how to swim. I was very poor on the parallel bars, and my phys.-ed. class came at the damn wrong hour." The reluctant athlete is Philosopher Mortimer Adler, 74, whose aversion to compulsory exercise cost him a B.A. degree from Columbia even though he completed the rest of the curriculum in three years and ranked first in his class. Last week Columbia tried to make things right, if not logical, with the author of How to Read a Book by awarding him its Graduate Faculties Alumni Award for Excellence. Adler accepted benignly, noting later that...
...difficult to convince corporations and foundations to donate money to a school that trains "those damn bureaucrafts," Price said...