Word: damn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carter did not look forward to going home. Summer was just beginning in New York, but late June was still winter in South Africa, and Carter became depressed almost as soon as he got off the plane. "Joburg is dry and brown and cold and dead, and so damn full of bad memories and absent friends," he wrote in a letter never mailed to a friend, Esquire picture editor Marianne Butler in New York...
...lizabeth: Every damn time I read this topic...
...President Bill Clinton cut off remittances, even if it means no more money from her son in California. "He pockets the money anyway," she says. Who? "Fidel. Who else?" Alarmed, her companions shush her, and she lowers her voice. "I'd rather suffer a little more than see this damn government prosper anymore," she whispers. "They have everything -- generators, cars, gas, the food they want -- and we have nothing. They talk about Fatherland or Death, Socialism or Death. Bullshit. I'm not going to die while they fatten themselves...
...lawmakers go on the floor of the House or Senate and stick any damn thing they want on an easel...
...other species, 20 of which could become extinct sometime in the next century if their depletion continues at the current pace, the Park Service warns. Four of them -- the hawksbill sea turtle, brown pelican, peregrine falcon, and Schaus' swallowtail butterfly -- are already endangered. "I remember seeing salmon so damn thick in the river you could have walked on them," Grosz says. "Now they're scarce. And we're killing 5,000 different kinds of birds every year...