Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...door was closed. She was, without knowing it, a sort of miracle in the Georgia road--a mirage at first for whomever (black or white) saw her, then undeniable, and finally, damn it all, real enough, and a threat...
...cells. "This trash keeps it up, you go ahead and do what you got to do," one said meaningfully to my cellmates. On the Negro side, I could hear the clatter of a drawn gun on bars like a stick dragged along a picket fence. "They'll be no damn singing in this jail!" came the shout. We got handcuffs to lock ever' one a you to the bars. Y'all shut up an' stay shut up--raisin' san' when we got to work...
...hint of crisis from Lord Home's broad, boyish grin and jaunty stride. The Prime Minister-designate seemed serenely untouched by the jealousies and conspiracies of his riven party. As one Tory said not long ago: "He's never scared. He just looks at you with that damn-your-eyes look and goes right on with what he's doing...
...Harvard man, when asked if he knew the difference between tails and a cutaway, exclaimed, "Who gives a damn...
...Schmidt, who also plays the leading role, has produced a new translation of the play called by Vladimir Nabokov the greatest ever written in Russia. Schmidt's version happily avoids the ponderousness of other efforts, and is marked by smoothness and consistency. However, it contains an oppressive use of "damn," "bastards," "sons of bitches" and similar expressions. In moderation they can be funny, in excess they quickly lose their impact. "Bastards" is not an inherently funny word, as Schmidt would have us believe...