Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lengthy preface to another author's recent book about colonialism, Les Damnés de la Terre (Damned of the Earth...
...Jackie Gleason is an artist of the first rank," wrote Novelist John O'Hara. "An artist puts his own personal stamp on all of his mature work, making his handling of his material uniquely his own. Millions of people who don't give a damn about art have been quick to recognize a creation. Ralph Kramden is a character that we might be getting from Mr. Dickens if he were writing...
Violently anti-U.N., the Belgian mercenaries scorn the caliber of U.N. troops. "The Irish and the Swedes make a lot of noise about being wonderful soldiers." says one Belgian with characteristicbitterness." But they're not worth a damn. All the Ethiopians are former criminals. The Gurkhas aren't human. They're not black and they're not white. They're macaques [apes]." The U.S. support of the U.N. causes rage: "Kennedy is a doubly filthy macaque. He's not only American; he's Irish...
...pedestal. To equate our normal search for talent of all sorts with the usual meaning of the word "recruit" is such a distortion of the truth that Lottman's use of the worse--or is he really that ignorant of the subject concerning which he does not hesitate to damn and dogmatise...
Have your readers heard about the first-grade teacher who banged up her car? Her first remarks were "Oh, oh, oh, damn, damn, damn...