Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gerhart D. Wiebe, dean of the School of Communications and Public Relations at Boston University, disagreed, saying that when the public applies pressure to broadcasters, it is not usually in the interests of quality. He cited the case of program which stirred widespread protest because it used the word "damn." Wiebe said he had objected to the program because of its "semi-fascist theme...
...instincts say "perhaps some day," but his cash registers say "now." The dominant sentiment is expressed by Real Estate Executive Sidney Smyer, chairman of the businessmen's committee that negotiated a truce of sorts in Birmingham: "I'm not an integrationist, but I'm not a damn fool either...
...British history, the ancient and slightly moribund textile-making firm of Courtaulds, Ltd. barely held off giant Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. last year by promising to mend its ways. The world's second biggest synthetic fiber manufacturer (after Du Pont), Courtaulds pledged an end to the secretive, damn-the-investor attitude prevailing since the firm was founded 147 years ago by Huguenot refugees named Courtauld. It also predicted that fiscal 1963 would bring a 30% rise in pre-tax earnings to $65 million...
...House Subcommittee on Immigration and the House Un-American Activities Committee, who unyieldingly resisted attempts to change his controversial 1952 McCarran-Walter Immigration Act and relentlessly investigated Communist infiltration in Hollywood and in teaching, yet for all his reputation as a conservative, voted so often for those "damn liberal" bills that the vote-watching Americans for Democratic Action gave him an 80% liberal rating; of leukemia; in Washington...
...Bannon is a bounder, he is never a bore. With his good looks, appetite for hell-raising and rootless amorality, he follows his code of don't-give-a-damn with snakelike charm on the cattle ranch where he lives with his decent old father (Melvyn Douglas) and his idolizing 17-year-old nephew (Brandon de Wilde). Hud sleeps with married women, blitzes the countryside in a pink Cadillac convertible, and devils the ranch's devoted and attractive housekeeper (Patricia Neal) with whispered propositions...