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Word: damndest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Vanishing Geisha | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unblushing Bloom | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: Ruffled Feathers | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Crank's Crank | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOTLAND: Proud Nation | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

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