Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three divisions' worth." After a JCS discussion on the use of chemicals to defoliate guerrilla hiding spots, Shoup dismissed the whole thing with the comment: "I've been using defoliants at my farm in West Virginia for years, and they don't work worth a damn...
...Damn Good?" In recent weeks, Shoup has made headline news by his insistence to the Senate subcommittee on military "muzzling" that his marines do not need instruction about the theory and practice of Communism in order to fight Communists. All a marine needs to know about an enemy, says Shoup, is "how damn good he is" as a fighter. Nor does Uncle Dave have any opinion at all on where or when the Marines should fight. "Wherever the Commander in Chief sends us," he declares, "our equipment, weapons and training will stand us in good stead. Whether...
...talked about the drive a lot, but what's happened? There's someone off running the damn thing, as usual," a member of the opposition grumbled. Prophesied a representative from the dormitory most strongly critical of the fund campaign: "We're going to have one hell of a time collecting money from Whitman...
...Deering drove through three Dartmouth defenders to put the varsity ahead, 13 to 11, after seven minutes, to set off a frantic burst which produced eight points in less than a minute and a half. Deering, fittingly enough, climaxed the burst with a beautiful steal and a damn-the-torpedoes drive through several massed Dartmouth defenders, making the score...
...always showing some hot-shot guy on a horse jumping over a fence . . . And underneath the guy on the horse's picture, it always says: "Since 1888 we have been molding boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men." Strictly for the birds. They don't do any damn more molding at Pencey than at any other school. And I didn't know anybody there that was splendid and clear-thinking...