Word: damn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Admiral James Watkins is a man determined to speak bluntly, and damn the torpedoes! As chairman of the 13-member presidential AIDS commission, he began his study of the AIDS crisis eight months ago by warning that his findings would not be swayed by political considerations. Last week, before a packed Washington press conference, he ended the study with the same forthrightness. In issuing a 269-page draft of the commission's final report, he managed both to show a fine disregard for prevailing prejudices about AIDS and to issue a sharp challenge to the Reagan Administration. Going beyond...
...both so damn intense on the ice. We lose it on the ice," Sweeney says. "Sure, Jerry might hit a little bit more than I do, I may skate a little bit more than he does. But we both enjoy those aspects of the game. It may seem on a first basis level that we have contrasting styles, but we're not that contrasting...
...starting with what he had each day for breakfast, left out the commonly known fact that a paternity suit was imminent and his life away from the field was a shambles. Always his favorite place, the diamond had become his only haven, and every night he got a hit. "Damn, I'm going bad," he muttered aside one night to one of the reporters, who said, "Huh?" Rose threw up his arms. "Hell, I'm hitting everything on the button, and only one a night is falling...
...readers of more than 25 million copies well know, Gone With the Wind ends with Scarlett O'Hara dreaming of Tara, vowing to win back the affections of Rhett Butler. What happened next? For those who give a damn, Novelist Alexandra Braid Ripley of Charleston, S.C., will soon provide an answer...
...author also implies that the Harvard administration's "business attitude" towards unionization is lowlier than a "moral" prounion attitude. What is immoral about a business-like decision? We are discussing people's jobs here; you can be damn sure a business attitude is important to everyone concerned. Perhaps the editor is unaware that a union is a marketed, strategically organized business itself--what else are union dues for? And should the author be thinking of the union drive as a completely spontaneous call to the masses, perhaps he or she should note that union drive handbooks advise organizers that...