Word: damnedest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Carolina's non-TV teachers are "doing their damnedest to make sure TV doesn't replace them," says one official. "What they didn't know before TV arrived, they find out in a hurry." Most of them accept the efficacy of TV teaching. The screen rivets students, encourages them to take notes, and makes them worry if they miss a lesson...
...eleven months in office, Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall has not proved himself the best, the worst, or even the most indifferent, member of the Kennedy Cabinet. But he is surely the damnedest...
...Damnedest Thing. By late August the cancer had so ravaged the old man that he could no longer carry on. Mister Sam had a pretty good idea of what ailed him-and he determined to go home to Texas to die. Still, as he left Washington four weeks before Congress adjourned, he defiantly promised to return for the next session in January...
...Medical Center in Dallas for extensive medical tests. Surgical examination showed cancer of the lymphatic system-inoperable, incurable and spreading through his body. When he recovered consciousness, Mister Sam asked his doctors for the truth and got it. "This," Rayburn told a great-nephew, Robert Bartley Jr., "is the damnedest thing that ever got ahold...
...Urge to Purge. In analysis-conscious California, leading couch mechanics have denied that this smacks of exhibitionism, believe that it merely reflects a desire to glamorize basic functions. "The ancient Romans used to find the damnedest ways of getting pleasure," says one psychiatrist. "A good plumbing system was one of them; the garden bathroom shows this same urge...