Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drives his Celtics in frequent practice sessions; once, when he detected loafing, he sent the champions ignominiously puffing up and down the cliff-steep aisles of Boston Garden. But Auerbach himself is quick to admit that his coaching has worked no miracles: "Remember this-I've got some damn good horses." He has indeed. Guard Bob Cousy is basketball's finest little man (6 ft. 1 in., 175 lbs.). In his tenth season, Cousy is again leading the N.B.A. in play making (9.4 a game), averaging a solid 19.6 points and directing the fast break up the middle...
...reflect on their author. In Bonjour Tristesse, the light revealed a child passionately and exuberantly weary of the world, but now it shows an adult who seems tired of writing books. There is little in Author Sagan's latest (and fourth) novel worth a compliment or a damn, although readers with an ironic turn of mind may cherish the 23-year-old author's reference to "that incomparable love that comes with age." The story, hardly more than the unhatched egg of a novel, concerns Paule-the only character whom the author has troubled to make credible...
...green berets merely patrolled, did nothing to interfere with well-wishers who brought food, drink, munitions and weapons to the insurgents. From several hundred, the defenders of the barricades grew to several thousand, and by nightfall they were turning away volunteers, "unless you've got a damn good...
...says drily that he hopes to devise a constitution that will give the individual European and Asian in Kenya at least "the same rights as a Negro has in Indiana." And he adds: "After this experience, I'm going to understand our own problem in the U.S. a damn sight better than before...
...remember me, but we have met before." It was a survivor of the British tank that Crisp had crippled. Recalling the horror of that day, Crisp replied: "I wish to hell I could forget you." But the survivor only grinned. "Bloody good shooting . . . You must have had a damn fine gunner...