Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Will They Use It? In view of all this, why aren't China's neighbors more worried? One experienced U.S. observer in Hong Kong says: "They aren't scaring worth a damn." They are nevertheless impressed that economically backward China accomplished the feat of building the bomb. Throughout Asia and Africa, among nations that vociferously disapproved of U.S. atomic tests, there is a certain racial satisfaction that another white man's monopoly has been broken. There is some talk that India and Japan might now try to build bombs of their...
...smooth flow of men and machines and termed it "an incredibly complex, perfectly organized and flawless operation." It was not entirely flawless. Marine Lieut. Colonel James B. Ord, at an inland command post, noted a column of smoke twisting over pine trees on the horizon. Grumbled Ord: "Some damn fool started a forest fire. I hope they get it out quickly." Then his walkie-talkie man reported: "Two helicopters have collided and crashed." The H-34 choppers, carrying 22 men, had smashed together some 600 ft. above ground. One burst into flames in the air, the other burned after crashing...
...Fists. After the first game, the Yanks wished they had stayed home too. "Damn," complained Pitcher Whitey Ford, watching the Cards take batting practice in Busch Stadium. "They're hitting them into the stands off their fists." The Yankees had all kinds of complaints: the dirt was too hard, the wind too strong, the fences too short, and the outfield grass looked as though it had been mowed with mortar shells. In the second inning, Rightfielder Mickey Mantle proved that his throwing arm was good as ever-by firing the ball clear into the grandstand on a play...
...Some day," she promises, "I am going to lose my temper. I've never done it, and I'm determined. But if you are going to throw a temperament you have to be damn sure you're right. Otherwise it won't quite come...
Defeat by a total of 48 min. 11 sec. was half again as bad as Sceptre's loss in 1958. Britons tended to find a scapegoat in Helmsman Scott, but that was unfair: Sovereign was so far outclassed that it needed an engine. "Damn," said one U.S. yachtsman, "why did the British have to come up with a boat like this?" But Constellation had barely crossed the finish line when Australia's Sir Frank Packer, whose Gretel made a fair show of it in 1962, handed an envelope to Commodore Chauncey Stillman of the New York Yacht Club...