Word: damn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some ways UNLV goes further than many schools to fend off corruption. It falls to Warkentien, now assistant to the athletic director, to keep the players out of trouble. "I'm the damn cop, but it's an impossible job," he groans. Warkentien, ever on the lookout for illegal gifts from boosters, examines every player's monthly rent check and car titles. But in other ways the university is less vigilant. For example, school officials have formal arrangements with Las Vegas-strip casino restaurants allowing players to charge one training meal...
...resident puts it, "In L.A. the first question is not What do you do? but What do you drive?" Will Angelenos really trade their Ferraris for car pools and their fuel-injected Chevy V-8s for electric roadsters? That remains to be seen. "We're for cleaner air, for damn sure," says Robert Harnar, a public relations executive at Ford. "But the old adage is that people in L.A. want buses and mass transit so all these other guys will get off the freeway...
...double beds were for sinners in New York City. In Hollywood movies, even happily married couples, like Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man series, slept in widely separated twin beds, clad top to bottom in pajamas or nightgown. Such now innocuous four-letter words as hell and damn were proscribed, and Gone With the Wind titillated and sometimes shocked audiences with Clark Gable's final words to Leigh: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn...
...feels damn good," said Jeremy T. Amen '92, who had been ready to admit himself to UHS for a severe case of pneumonia only minutes before...
When a team overcomes illness and injury to beat one team and come one race away from beating the other team in a tough tri-meet, it's more than admirable, it's pretty damn impressive...