Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German-born father, a civil engineer whom Heller recalls as an ''immensely wide reader. As a child I took for granted a range of parental information that as a parent I have never been able to live up to myself. My father knew the answer to every damn question a kid could think...
...take positions in this matter,"said Munongo, adding by way of explanation that the U.N. had never concerned itself about Sacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, Caryl Chessman, Draja Mikhailovich or King Feisal. As for any J.K. investigation, Katanga President Moise Tshombe snapped: "I couldn't give a damn...
...hero, though such ideas are far beyond his merely physical preoccupations, behaves like a personification of Gide's acte gratuit ("an action motivated by nothing . . . born of itself"), and his story can be seen as an extemporization on the existentialist tenet that life is just one damn thing after another, and death is the thing after that...
...them from the "bomb-throwing liberals" like California's Jimmy Roosevelt). Leathery Sam Rayburn, who became a Congressman in 1913, before Richard Boiling (or John F. Kennedy) was born, is immune to ideological itches, felt none of the liberal urge to topple Judge Smith. But Rayburn is a damn-the-infidels Democrat, and during last August's postscript session of Congress he got very sore at Smith for bottling up Kennedy's legislative program in the Rules Committee, thereby lending aid and comfort to the Republican enemy only a few months before the election. Last month, with...
...general grabs his "hot phone'' to the White House, snaps: "Mr. President! . . . Oh-well, get the President right away . . . Yes, but it's urgent! ... I said-What? . . . Oh, that's very nice-I mean-PLEASE! Get me the President ... I don't give a damn about diapers! I said get me your Daddy! . . . Caroline? . . . Caroline! . . . CAROLINE...