Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beat the two of them hands down. "To change anything in the Na-a-vy," grumbled Roosevelt, "is like punching a feather bed. You punch it with your right and you punch it with your left until you are finally exhausted, and then you find the damn bed just as it was before you started punching...
...week, and it's sort of sad it has to close," she said. When did she feel Mary's lease on life was running short? When the curtain went up recently and ten minutes later an outraged voice in the audience cried: "My God. I saw this damn thing...
...said that there were thousands of students at Berkeley who didn't belong in college. For the rest, and Savio is one of them, the fight for free speech is also a fight for dignity. He tells of one FSM demonstrator who admitted that he didn't give a damn about the free speech issue; the student said he had joined the protests because, "I'm tired of being shat upon." This is one expression of Savio's view that the FSM is a struggle of "the managed"--the students and the faculty--against "the managers"--the administration...
...anybody tried to do anything to me, the Judge would get him before anybody." Moursund also keeps a .30-caliber rifle with a nickel-plated barrel clipped under the front seat of his car. Explains he: "When you have to shoot a rattlesnake, pistols aren't worth a damn...
...nice, pleasant, enjoyable profession." Presumably this is because, before the bile can accumulate, Osborn has worked it off in a few devastating slashes of pen on paper. He got the stored-up frustrations and anger of World War II off his chest with a 1946 book War Is No Damn Good!; his 1960 book The Vulgarians took a snickersnee to the mediocrity of mass society...