Word: damndest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls offered to dance for us. They went out for a few minutes, then came back, twirling hula hoops about their waists while the hi-fi played rock 'n' roll. The evening ended after only two hours, and it cost us a fortune. It was the damndest thing I ever...
...Arland Ussher sees in Dangerfield a dangerous symptom. Says Ussher: "[Donleavy's] Fool-Rogue represents, fairly enough, the present mood of the world . . . The World after the Great Flood, a world to which the Great Peace and the two Wars, Christianity and Diabolism, have done their blessedest and damndest...
...dilemma that only the Indian can solve. As one top Indian Affairs official put it: "The Indians are going to have to face the fact that they will soon be 21. We are doing our damndest to give them the best possible preparation. But a lot of them don't want to face the fact, and they resent...
...rejoiced, for Telles' triumph meant that El Paso, for the first time in its history, will have a Mexican-American mayor. One Telles supporter, who had heard the glad tidings south of the border, wrote Pooley last week: "Mexican citizens were giving Americans abrazos [embraces]. It was the damndest thing I ever heard of." Wrote another: "I have always admired your crusade for democratic and just principles. I don't know what in hell would have happened to us Juan Smiths if it hadn't been...
With that, Scotland will be content. Like the first mate in the whaling story, all Scotland asks of England is "plain seevility, an' that of the commonest, God-damndest kind...