Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original schedule, speeded by Air Force decisions in 1959, when there were widespread charges that an unfavorable missile gap did indeed exist. Although the speedup seemed "absolutely impossible" to Air Force brass, it was accomplished mainly by the drive, patience, and, as one colleague puts it, the "damn genius" of Brigadier General Sam Phillips, Minuteman program director and, at 41, one of the youngest generals in the Air Force...
McLevy lived as frugally as did Bridgeport. When the usual police-driven squad car was first offered for his use, he barked: "Get that damn thing out of here." He wore the same shapeless brown fedora for some 15 years. His frayed shirts were usually smudged, his brown or grey suits baggy, his high-laced shoes were scuffed. His only sartorial concern was that all aldermen wear straw hats, white gloves and carry dime-store flags in the Memorial Day parade each year. They did-and still...
...able to do what he wants with the land. DeGuglielmo said that if the University were to devote two thirds of the 12-acre site for tax-producing purposes--as was suggested by L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-President, last week--"I think they'd be treating us damn fine...
...best damn cook on the Erie Canal, and the timber drover Bigerlow was lofted into song as the Old Ironsides of all Great Lakes barges. Labor songs, in fact, not only chronicled the building of the nation but also played a part in the actual work, from the winch-hauling shanties of New England sailors to the rhythmic songs of the free-swinging lumberjacks of the great Pacific Northwest. There was even a song that helped people put up rail-and-post fences. And in the most often repeated labor song of all-wherein John Henry, the Negro Paul Bunyan...
...punch cattle for no damn...