Word: damned
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Webb makes no claim to be motivated entirely by Christian charity. "We knew we were taking a calculated risk," he says, "but you have to do that in the contracting business. It was a gamble, but I was pretty damn sure it would work...
...also made another marked change in Webb's life. He was laid up with something the Army diagnosed as flu, and a doctor was routinely taking his personal history. As Webb tells it: "When I told him I drank from ten to 20 bourbons a day, he damn near dropped his teeth. He said I ought to cut down, but I told him I'd damn well quit. And I did. Not another drop of whisky has passed my lips since that day. All that time I spent drinking, I could now spend working...
...Damn Yankees. Considering himself "a left-hander in a righthanders' world," Veeck's relations with his fellow club owners were a succession of explosions. "If baseball owners ran Congress," he says, "Kansas and Nebraska would still be trying to get into the Union." More than anyone else, Veeck fought with the New York Yankees. "Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act," he says. "It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction...
...perhaps the A.D.D.L. will even damn A.T. & T, for their experimental Telstar because it is a use of outer space, that area which man should stay out of, even as the Wright brothers were cursed for flying within the terrestrial atmosphere...
Parents who scorn the "See, See, See" tedium of "basal readers" have long cherished the story about the first-grade teacher who steps out of her wrecked car to cry, "Oh, Oh, Oh-Damn, Damn, Damn." Now the gag has grown to an entire parody of the best-known reader, Fun with Dick and Jane. At this month's convention of the National Education Association, delegates happily passed around the anonymous spoof, Fun with Hamlet and His Friends. Excerpts...