Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sitting here does any good," counseled folksinger Joan Baes, who was among the sit-in demonstrators. "I don't think they are going to make any arrests, I don't think they are going to use this gate, and I don't think the President gives much of a damn," she declared...
...Damn it," Kennedy would complain to Jacqueline, according to Schlesinger, "[McGeorge] Bundy and I get more done in one day at the White House than they do in six months in the State Department." The President was impatient with the department's smothering bureaucracy, angered at its unimaginative approach to foreign policy, irked by its pedantic literary style. Once in 1963 after receiving a draft for a congressional message about a National Academy of Foreign Affairs, Kennedy bounced it with these comments: "This is only the latest and worst of a long number of drafts sent here for presidential...
...cosmic rays, a collector cup to measure the solar wind's barrage of protons, a cosmic-ray telescope and cosmic-dust collector -plus the all-important TV camera. "I don't think you could improve the payload," said one of the project scientists. "It's a damn near perfect mix of experiments...
...hapless heroes of the Broadway musical Damn Yankees were so hopelessly stuck in seventh place that only the Devil could help them win the league pennant. It was art imitating life, except that in the late 1950s the Devil himself could not rescue the real-life Washington Senators. They were the most miserable team in the American League...
...Twins. In four seasons, they have twice finished in the first division, a feat they had accomplished only 20 times in 60 years in Washington. And never have they been hotter than now. They have won nine of their last twelve games, including three out of four with those damn and now doomed Yankees, and at week's end were leading the American League by four games...