Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pelvic Polka. Youth's greatest malaise is simple Soviet boredom. Endless bitter jokes damn the drabness of life under Communism. Asks one: "Is there life on Mars?" Answer: "No, there isn't any there either." Asks another: "Is it possible to build Communism in only one country?" "Certainly, but who wants to live there?" Russia lacks the drugstores, coffee bars or bowling alleys where the young can congregate, although there is a scattering of ice cream parlors. Cinemas are few and crowded; getting tickets to the Bolshoi or Moscow Art Theater takes hours of waiting in line...
...attended Burgess Hill for one year before I came to New Zealand. The schooling I received there had a profound influence on me. I was a damn little brat by the time I'd finished, and at least a year behind in my formal schooling...
...damn much was happening. who once was proud of his constant changing was now for a status quo. For no sooner he adjust from an isolationist America to America as an international leader than he faced, via Lunik, and in his own backyard, Beatnik, with the possibility of America as a second class power...
After the loss to St. Lawrence Friday night, Crimson partisans took to calling the Larries and Clarkson "professionals." But it won't work; you can't damn everyone who beats you as a professional. In this tournament, the varsity was third-best...
Jokes in Crisis. The two men became stanch allies and farm friends, although Stanton never could abide Lincoln's habit of cracking jokes in time of crisis. "God damn it to hell," Stanton stormed after one round of presidential humor, "was there ever such nonsense?" Stanton once told a petitioner that the President was a damned fool. When the petitioner repeated the remark to the President, Lincoln professed astonishment: "Did Stanton call me a damn fool? Well, I guess I had better step over and see Stanton about this. Stanton is usually right...