Word: damn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until Discovery shut down its three main engines 6 1/2 minutes later, shucked off its external fuel tank, then slipped safely into orbit about 180 miles above the earth a half hour later. Declared elated space engineer John Kaltenbach: "This was the one that had to fly. It looks damn good. Oh, it just feels so good...
...Lousy nigger. I don't want to be saved by some god-damn nigger," said one man, a truck driver from West Virginia...
...Ophthalmologist Jose Portal was a star pitcher and a good shortstop too, but, he recalls, "I couldn't hit worth a damn." That is, not until he switched to batting lefthanded. After studying 23 varsity baseball players at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Portal thinks he knows why. ; In last week's New England Journal of Medicine, Portal and fellow Researcher Paul Romano reported that it's mostly a matter of eye-hand dominance. The better pitchers -- and poorer hitters -- tend to have a dominant, or favored, eye and hand on the same side. But good hitters have...
Bush praises his running mate Dan Quayle on the peculiar grounds that he "damn sure never burned the American flag," as if Dukakis or Lloyd Bentson or anyone in mainstream public life ever did. Meanwhile, other Republicans spread the baseless rumor that there are photographs of Kitty Dukakis burning the flag. If Bush thinks that kind of thing has no place in the campaign, he lacks the gallantry to say so. He also lacks the candor to say straight out about his opponent what he suggests by innuendo...
Bush. Yes. Damn right. But I don't know what the facts are. I have to wait and see what facts are driving this. I rode into a finance meeting ((in New Orleans)) on a fire engine, and you find reporters screaming, frantically, diesel fuel all over, "Hey, what about this?" Yes, there's been a heightened level of attention. Put it that...